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Linus Speaks His Mind on GPL Enforcement

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday September 04 2016, @12:16PM   
from the it-is-usually-sugarcoated dept.

JaKe writes:

In the time leading up to the next Kernel Summit topics are presented and discussed beforehand on the Ksummit-discuss mailing list. There [CORE TOPIC] GPL defense issues was introduced. Even though Linus is not subscribed to this list he speaks his mind, bluntly. A good read.

I'm not aware of anybody but the lawyers and crazy people that were happy about how the BusyBox situation ended up. Please pipe up if you actually know differently. All it resulted in was a huge amount of bickering, and both individual and commercial developers and users fleeing in droves. Botht he original maintainer and the maintainer that started the lawsuits ended up publicly saying it was a disaster.

So I think the whole GPL enforcement issue is absolutely something that should be discussed, but it should be discussed with the working title.

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• Re:Insane and crazy like the FSF Re:Insane and crazy like the FSF (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @01:07PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @01:07PM (#397372)

  Governments using stolen money to buy slaveware to teach your kids to be slaves

  Dude, you've spent too much time on the Internet. Your brain is fried

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• Re:Insane and crazy like the FSF (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 04 2016, @01:27PM

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Sunday September 04 2016, @01:27PM (#397378) Journal

  Or, alternatively, you spent to much time in school. GP post is pretty insightful, actually.

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