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Linus Speaks His Mind on GPL Enforcement

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday September 04 2016, @12:16PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday September 04 2016, @08:41PM

    by frojack (1554) on Sunday September 04 2016, @08:41PM (#397497) Journal

    Why did that quote from Linus end one sentence too soon?

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

      "Lawyers: poisonous to openness, poisonous to community, poisonous to
    projects".

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