On Jun 19, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The GPLv2 is the one that allows more developers.
> The GPLv2 is the one that is acceptable to more people. Based on my understanding that the anti-tivoization provisions are *the* objectionable issue about GPLv3 for those of you who dislike GPLv3, this is circular reasoning: anti-tivoization is bad => we reject licenses with it => there are fewer developers willing to develop with such licenses => anti-tivoization is bad > Face it, the "open source" crowd is the *bigger* crowd. I really don't know about that. I can believe it may be so in LKML. > I haven't really seen a single one. Last I did the statistic, I asked the > top ~25-30 kernel developers about their opinion. NOT A SINGLE ONE > preferred the GPLv3. Wow, that's a really big sample among all Free Software and Open Source developers out there. And not even a little bit biased at that. > So I have actual *numbers* on my side. What do you have, except for a > history of not actually understanding my arguments? Which is worse, not understanding or repeatedly snipping out and addressing unrelated points? Let's please try again. I'll try to keep it simple, since you can't seem to be able to grasp the entire argument, and keep disregarding essential parts, disputing unrelated points and jumping to the conclusions that you've disputed the point I was trying to make. I'll present it in parts, as an attempt to stop you from making this mistake, that I'm sure is not intentional. The first part is in this e-mail. Dispute this: non-tivoized hardware => users can scratch their itches => more contributions from these users tivoized hardware => users can't scratch their itches => fewer contributions from these users -- 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/
