is the GPLv3 "similar in spirit" to the GPLv2?

Posted Sep 28, 2006 21:54 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: is the GPLv3 "similar in spirit" to the GPLv2? by pinky0x51
Parent article: Why Torvalds is sitting out the GPLv3 process (Linux.com)

What makes someone a Linux Hacker? Right, if he contributes to linux.
What makes someone a GNU Hacker? Right, if he contributes to GNU software.

Right. GNU is a tiny amount of code contributed for/by the FSF, plus everything they can freely share the source code to. In that sense, GNU is truly larger than Linux. But what the FSF has really contributed is a small fraction of that.