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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:Lawsuits are like war (Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday September 06 2016, @04:52AM

  by Arik (4543) on Tuesday September 06 2016, @04:52AM (#397978) Journal

  I believe his point is that he's getting paid and he doesn't like people rocking that boat. Anyone that does is 'crazy' in his view, and anyone that cares about the bigger picture is a lunatic.
  
  That's nothing new. Linus has been like that for years. When he opens his mouth about technical issues he's usually right, but when he talks about legal and tactical issues or anything having to do with the community his wisdom is notable for non-existence. He often abuses the people that made his work possible, in the crudest of terms, and quite often acts like a spoiled child, as you can see in this case.
  
  

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