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Results of an informal GPLv3 poll amongst kernel contributors

Posted Sep 22, 2006 20:43 UTC (Fri) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263)
Parent article: Results of an informal GPLv3 poll amongst kernel contributors

Baaaaah, even the wording makes a natural bias, as the +3 isn't possible, since you wouldn't be a kernel developer if that was the case.

This is an absolutely worthless poll...

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Results of an informal GPLv3 poll amongst kernel contributors

Posted Sep 23, 2006 0:56 UTC (Sat) by Ralf (guest, #40688) [Link]

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar ;-) It seems the vote key suffered a cut and paste accident in James' posting to linux-kernel. It was originally:

        -3: I wouldn't want to use v3 (I really dislike it, or my company
            would have serious problems allowing me to participate using
            the v3 draft)

        -2: I think v3 is much worse than v2

        -1: I think v2 is better, but I don't care that deeply

         0: I don't really care at all

         1: I think v3 is better, but I don't care that deeply

         2: I think v3 is much better than v2

         3: I wouldn't want to use v2 (I really dislike it, or my company
            would have serious problems allowing me to participate using
            the GPLv2)

Results of an informal GPLv3 poll amongst kernel contributors

Posted Sep 23, 2006 2:21 UTC (Sat) by jstAusr (guest, #27224) [Link]

The vote is suprising to me, not Linus of course, but some of the others. I am no license expert but is seems to me that GPLv3 goes in the direction of insuring user freedom at the expense of some discomfort for companies by giving the users better access to the code. I thought most of the developers were interested in insuring freedom over dollars. So does this mean that most of the top kernel developers have no problem with Tivo? What about protection of the users privacy? Do they have an answer to the problems or don't they care?