From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932220AbWAUTBT (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:01:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751019AbWAUTBT (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:01:19 -0500 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:54498 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751154AbWAUTBT (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:01:19 -0500 Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:01:14 +0100 (CET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Alexander Shishckin cc: Chase Venters , "Jeff V. Merkey" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux In-Reply-To: <71a0d6ff0601202156r7e1b067br5ad87abb59d7f2cb@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <43D114A8.4030900@wolfmountaingroup.com> <71a0d6ff0601201827o40a9812ft96d18b8f819fde3e@mail.gmail.com> <200601202208.56227.chase.venters@clientec.com> <71a0d6ff0601202156r7e1b067br5ad87abb59d7f2cb@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Alexander Shishckin wrote: > On 1/21/06, Chase Venters wrote: > > On Friday 20 January 2006 20:27, Alexander Shishckin wrote: > > > GPLv3 tends to get on top of the most braindead things ever known to > > > software development. It is, in fact, a one-too-many example of how a > > > person who cannot be seriously considered to be a computer programmer > > > tries to have his one-too-many revenge on companies which employ real > > > software developers and produce real world software. Someone should > > > probably put an end to these miserable efforts. > > > > Why does everyone assume that Stallman is out to 'get revenge' on companies? > > Is his desire for freedom so hard to grasp and believe that all you can do is > > spin it into silly conspiracies? > Ain't that obvoius? Every second word that you read in GPLs is either > 'freedom' or 'share' and the rest of the document has absolutely > nothing to do with both, just restricting our *freedom* to *share*. The problem with `just sharing' is that some people are only interested in the `receiving' part of sharing, so unfortunately you need some extra legal stuff in the license to make sure everyone plays fair. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds