Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:36:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: GPLv3 Position Statement |
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On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, tridge@samba.org wrote: > > > Quite frankly, if the FSF ever relicenses any of their projects to be > > "GPLv3 or later", I will hope that everybody immediately forks, and > > creates a GPLv2-only copy (and yes, you have to do it immediately, or > > you're screwed forever). That way the people involved can all vote with > > their feet. > > I do hope your either joking about this, or that you would consult > with the major contributors to the project before doing this.
I very much mean "major contributors".
Quite frankly, the FSF isn't actually doing any of the work for any of the tools it maintains any more. And hasn't for a long while.
Hint: look up the glibc maintainers opinions on some of these same issues in the past. They had reason to clash with the FSF over a _much_ smaller license change (LGPL 2 -> 2.1).
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