On Jun 14, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Diego Calleja wrote:
>> And the FSF is trying to control the design and licensing of >> hardware throught the influence of their software. It's not. It's only working to ensure recipients of the Free Software can modify and share the software. >> What the FSF is trying to do is EVIL. > I wouldn't go that far (although, in the heat of the moment I probably > _have_ gone that far. Oops ;). :-) > I literally think that the GPLv2 has worked so well exactly because you > can strip it of its high-falutin' morality and the FSF Kool-Aid, and just > see it as a "tit-for-tat" license. It allows everybody to see that the > work they put in (into the _software_) is protected, and people cannot > make improved versions of that software and distribute those improved > versions without giving you the right back to use those improvements (to > the _software_). Can you explain to me how it is that the Tivoization provisions (the only objection you have to GPLv3) conflict with this? (nevermind our disagreement as to whether "tit-for-tat" applies to either GPLv2 or GPLv3) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
