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    SubjectRe: GPLv3 Position Statement


    On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Neil Brown wrote:
    > On Thursday September 28, torvalds@osdl.org wrote:
    > >
    > > Btw, it should be stated here: I'm not advocating either of the above. If
    > > a license says "v2 or later", anybody who removes an explicit right
    > > granted by the people who originally wrote and worked on the code is just
    > > being a total a-hole.
    >
    > But isn't that the whole point - to replace v2 by v3?

    I'm sure it's the point for the FSF. Is it really the point for anybody
    else? Everybody else is better off with the more permissive license..

    > Now I know that is what you would prefer, but it seems obvious that it
    > isn't what the new FSF wants.
    > I would be very surprised if new versions of any FSF-control code is
    > available under v2 more than a few months after v3 becomes final.

    I suspect the FSF might well be _very_ careful here. If they move to "v3
    or later", they had better be damn sure somebody won't license-fork that
    project, or they'll be left with nothing at all.

    So I would not be entirely surprised if projects remain "v2 or later" just
    because it's to nobodys advantage to play chicken.

    But who knows..

    > I don't see the urgency. Why are you "screwed forever"? You can
    > always take the last version that was available under a suitable
    > license and fork from there, just like OpenSSH did.
    >
    > Sure: the longer you leave it the harder it will be to get critical
    > mass, but I don't see the need for it to be done immediately.

    It obviously doesn't have to be, but it gets a lot harder to do later, if
    the project has any appreciable amount of real development.

    Of course, a lot of projects probably don't have that much. I haven't
    followed, but I don't get the feeling that bash or fileutils have a huge
    amount of constant changes..

    Linus
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