Posted on 02/11/2007 7:37:18 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
Reaction to the Free Software Foundation's upcoming revision of the GNU Public License (GPLv3) has been mixed so far, with many participants taking a wait-and-see attitude while others (such as Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds) actively opposing certain provisions. Now Sun has apparently decided to put its weight squarely behind the FSF and GPLv3. The reasons may not be as pure as you think.
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Wow, look at that. Torvalds is more capitalist than the folks at Sun are.
Well, if I correctly remember, V.2 of the GPL guaranteed that any software using it would agree to future versions, as well.
That is a stupid, socialist idea. If they added in that you were to give them $100,000, then you would have to do that, in theory. They just had "faith" that FSF wouldn't so something that stupid.
That said, they did with V.3. Requiring you give up all your pertinent patents to use the license is crazy.
I like the CDDL and the BSD. Why not allow people to make their own stuff and not choose to give it away for free?
You said so yourself. It's stupid socialist ideas. That's who/what the FSF is.
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