On 10-Oct-06, at 4:19 PM, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
agenda is to protect your and my freedom. When we are requesting people to adopt GPLv3, it is not to snatch anything from from you, but to prevent it from getting snatched.
be clear on one thing - GPL is not the only license around. FOSS licences range from pure BSD licences - which are the freest and least restrictive to the GPL, which is the most restrictive. Apache Software Foundation does not use the GPL - and you just have to look at their projects to see the huge contribution they have made to the foss world. And zope/plone, postgresql, python, php ... the list is endless. And also be clear that even assuming the operating system in what you call GNU/Linux is all GNU and GPL, a machine just running that operating system on that kernel is useless. It needs the applications to be useful. And a very large number of those applications are non-GNU and non-GPL. And they are free - and no one will be able to snatch away their freedom. So the assertion that the GPL is the sole guardian of freedom is false.
So i feel that you should stop trying to claim parentage of Linux - linux neither wants or needs it. Far better you concentrate on your own baby - hurd. I personaly now find the best term to use is just FOSS - not linux, not bsd, not darwin - a totally neutral term that clearly identifies the 'enemy'.