A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

Posted Oct 10, 2011 21:59 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: A Plumber's Wish List for Linux by jra
Parent article: A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

by the same logic, choosing GPLv3+ isolates your project from parts of the community and so is anti-social

face it, when the FSF created the GPLv3 they split the community between those who use GPLv2 and those who use GPLv3, there are some who allow both, but in those cases the code can only move one way to GPLv3+ projects.

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A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

Posted Oct 10, 2011 23:33 UTC (Mon) by jra (subscriber, #55261) [Link] (2 responses)

Chosing GPL at all is in itself a statement that you approve of that license and the copyleft provisions within. That in and of itself is a fairly strong statement in support of the FSF who are the creators and maintainers of the license.

Saying "I support GPL and copyleft, but I don't trust the people that created it" strikes me as a bit silly (and anti-social). It's the FSF that are moving it forward to deal with modern threats such as DRM-locked down hardware and software patents that simply didn't exist with earlier versions.

Anyway, this is getting distracting from the fact that the Linux kernel doesn't have properly working POSIX AIO, and the real technical discussions I'd prefer to be having, so I'm going to leave my politics at this comment, and get back to complaining that the kernel doesn't give me the free pony that *I* want :-).

A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

Posted Oct 11, 2011 0:14 UTC (Tue) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

How is that silly? GPLv2 is out there, you can look it over and satisfy yourself that it does express what you want. GPLv3 doesn't, for a lot of copyleft advocates. And nobody can even hint at the changes GPLv4 might bring...

A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

Posted Oct 12, 2011 22:10 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

> Saying "I support GPL and copyleft, but I don't trust the people that created it" strikes me as a bit silly (and anti-social)

I disagree with you, but I'm pretty certain you're not Hitler. :-)

I think it's equivalent to "Love your country, but never trust its government". That v2, which you could see, and choose, suited you, and you weren't sure later versions would not, declining to take advantage of the "or later version" language seems perfectly sane to me.

And gimme back my initials; it's confusing? ;-)