> > I'm sorry, but IMO this GPL change seems just a disaster waiting to > > happen. Unless GPL3 is non-controversial (which it sounds like it is > > not) it'll tear both your development team and your user community > > in half, as well as probably get rid of a large part of your > > corporate funding. Does anyone from the FSF read this list, and if > > so, what do they think about this line of argument? > > As has been said before, the proper list to discuss licensing politics > is gnu.misc.discuss, not here. Neither GCC developers individually nor the > GCC SC has any input whatsoever on how the FSF licenses its software.
ok - noted. But IMO that leaves no real forum at all. Wandering over to gnu.misc.discuss I get such snippets as: > Here's something I wrote about GPLv3 and Devices Rigged to Malfunction: > http://kerneltrap.org/node/7238 and in response: > Hey FSFE retard, it's malfunction in your brain, not Tivo-like devices. Wandering through a couple more posts shows pretty much the same level of maturity, and wandering into that cesspool seems to solve nothing at all. And in any case, why should it be off-topic? I would think that the possibility of your project being divided in two would be of great concern to you guys, and that you'd have every single motivation to convey any sort of apprehension that you might have about such a split to the group that could prevent it. After all - lots of you are putting a great effort into GNU software basically gratis... Ed
