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    SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3


    On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Diego Calleja wrote:
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    > And the FSF is trying to control the design and licensing of hardware throught
    > the influence of their software. And I think it's wrong. I'm all to forbid hardware
    > that imposes restrictions on hardware, but software licenses are NOT the way
    > to make it. That's a task for a "Free Hardware Foundation", not the FSF.

    Amen. And btw, opencores.org does actually exist.

    I don't even think open hardware is a big issue: the worry-warts about
    hardware are likely wrong, and hardware today is a lot more open than it
    used to be even just a decade ago. You can much more easily design your
    own (FPGA's are cheap and powerful), and yes, it's more complex today, but
    that's actually an argument _for_ openness rather than against it (open
    processes work better in complex environments!).

    The real issue is "open content", and we do actually have various
    organizations that support that in particular. I would heartily encourage
    people to get involved with the Creative Commons, and the EFF, and I think
    Larry Lessig is a really smart and articulate person, who you should
    listen to.

    > 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 don't think the FSF is evil. They're just too single-minded, and look
    too much at one issue, and only care about the one thing they care about,
    and in the process, they tend to have a really hard time seeing the other
    side of the coin.

    They define "freedom" one way, and by defining it in a very particular
    way, they miss the fact that what is "freedom" to them is not "freedom" to
    somebody else.

    They have a very particular agenda, and in having that agenda and a very
    strict view of how the world should look (according to the FSF), they
    dismiss the fact that other people have _other_ agenda's, and see the same
    world totally differently.

    And I think that kind of single-mindedness is silly and
    counter-productive.

    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_).

    So the GPLv2 may have come out of a very single-minded endeavor, but I
    think it ended up being capable of so much more than rms really even
    envisioned, exactly because you don't have to _view_ it in that manner.

    Linus
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