On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:09:46PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I'm the original author, and I selected the GPLv2 for Linux. [...] > I'm not going to bother discussing this any more. You don't seem to > respect my right to choose the license for my own code.
This is the main reason I dislike GPLwhatever: there is no notion of "orginal author". You might have written 99% of the code, that doesn't matter. You have no rights whatsoever once you release something under the GPL (no more than ANYOne else). The GPL is nice for the community, and for the users - but very, very bad towards it's authors (taking all and every right you might have). If John Doe wants to re-release the whole kernel under GPLv3, then all he needs is a website and some bandwidth. -- Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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/
