http://osnews.com/story.php/16973/Sun-To-License-OpenSolaris-Under-GPLv3 http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2084284,00.asp
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2007/1/17, harsha reddy harsha@linuxmail.org:
http://osnews.com/story.php/16973/Sun-To-License-OpenSolaris-Under-GPLv3 http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2084284,00.asp
This is really exciting news! This will surely add to the pressure on Linus to chose GPLV3 for the kernel. Lets wait and watch.
Cheers Praveen
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പ്രവീണ്|Praveen wrote:
This is really exciting news! This will surely add to the pressure on Linus to chose GPLV3 for the kernel. Lets wait and watch.
How are these two related ?
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2007/1/17, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com:
How are these two related ?
Linus Torvalds has not been for GPLv3 for Linux and if Open Solaris goes
GPLv3 that would be a significant support for GPLv3. When more and more projects move to GPLv3 the pressure on Linus to go for GPLv3 would increase and Open Solaris would be a good start.
Cheers Praveen
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പ്രവീണ്|Praveen എ|A wrote:
Linus Torvalds has not been for GPLv3 for Linux and if Open Solaris goes GPLv3 that would be a significant support for GPLv3. When more and more projects move to GPLv3 the pressure on Linus to go for GPLv3 would increase and Open Solaris would be a good start.
The query was more on why is it necessary to put *pressure* on Linus to be GPLv3 compliant/released rather than letting him have a free say in it. Last I read off LWN, he was pretty clear about his reasons (aka reservations) and posited a wait-let's see stance
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2007/1/17, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com:
The query was more on why is it necessary to put *pressure* on Linus to be GPLv3 compliant/released rather than letting him have a free say in it. Last I read off LWN, he was pretty clear about his reasons (aka reservations) and posited a wait-let's see stance
One of the aims of GPLv3 is to let the owners have the key to their devices (stop tivoisation, where you know you are running Free Software under GPL but without the ability to tinker and customise) and if Linux kernel does not go GPLv3 path we can't have that. So if all others go GPLv3 way (and if OpenSolaris leads the way that would bring a positive effect) then everyone who support Linus' view on GPLv3 now (especially with the Novell-Microsoft deal) might not be as supportive and that would put pressure on Linus to rethink his position.
Cheers Praveen
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പ്രവീണ്|Praveen എ|A wrote:
One of the aims of GPLv3 is to let the owners have the key to their devices (stop tivoisation, where you know you are running Free Software under GPL but without the ability to tinker and customise) and if Linux kernel does not go GPLv3 path we can't have that. So if all others go GPLv3 way (and if OpenSolaris leads the way that would bring a positive effect) then everyone who support Linus' view on GPLv3 now (especially with the Novell-Microsoft deal) might not be as supportive and that would put pressure on Linus to rethink his position.
While respecting the value of freedom for one thing - don't you think it runs counter when you have to *pressure* someone to see your way of thinking and thus taking away their freedom to choose and select a course that is according to them fine ?
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On 18/01/07, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com wrote:
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പ്രവീണ്|Praveen എ|A wrote:
One of the aims of GPLv3 is to let the owners have the key to their devices (stop tivoisation, where you know you are running Free Software under GPL but without the ability to tinker and customise) and if Linux kernel does not go GPLv3 path we can't have that. So if all others go GPLv3 way (and if OpenSolaris leads the way that would bring a positive effect) then everyone who support Linus' view on GPLv3 now (especially with the Novell-Microsoft deal) might not be as supportive and that would put pressure on Linus to rethink his position.
While respecting the value of freedom for one thing - don't you think it runs counter when you have to *pressure* someone to see your way of thinking and thus taking away their freedom to choose and select a course that is according to them fine ?
Actually no. You are only showing them alternate paths and I think that that is democratic since the final choice is with Linus.
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