On Jul 7, 2008, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- On Mon, 7/7/08, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> GPLv2 vs GPLv3 doesn't make much of a difference. > If it did not make much of a difference, then why is Linus Torvalds > very much opposed to releasing the kernel(s) in this new version? > There has to be a catch here! Mainly out of early misunderstandings, and out of political reasons, such as his defense of tivoization (because it's more tit-for-tat?). Add to that the eternal defensiveness from the moral and ethical grounds of the Free Software movement, encoded in the GPL and furthered in GPLv3. There sure is a catch :-) In case you want to dig deeper, I wrote a lot about GPLv3, trying to debunk some of the objections about it that came from that general direction. http://fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/draft/gplv3-snowwhite http://fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/draft/tivoization-and-communities http://fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/draft/forking-and-license-patching http://fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/2007-06-29-gplv3-tivo-and-linux http://fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/2007-07-01-gplv3-tivo-and-linux http://fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/2007-07-19-gplv3-tivo-and-linux -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
