linux-kernel - Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

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Message-Id: <E4B98A24-5632-4DA5-AD3A-37396D5EF1B3@kernel.crashing.org>
Date:	Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:59:20 +0200
From:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	"linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@...logic.com>
Cc:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...l.org>,
	"Patrick McFarland" <diablod3@...il.com>,
	"Chase Venters" <chase.venters@...entec.com>,
	"Theodore Tso" <tytso@....edu>,
	"Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	"Sergey Panov" <sipan@...an.org>,
	"James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...eleye.com>,
	"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

> However, now some are beginning to see the light as history
> continues to be rewritten and a history lesson is unfolding.

> These efforts go back to the days when
> "distributions" consisted of 56 floppy disks and Linus was
> in Helsinki, working on his degree. The FSF didn't exist, and
> GNU was the name of an immature compiler.

The FSF was founded in 1985, now who is rewriting history
here :-)  "GNU" never was the name for the compiler, either.

> Sometimes we need
> to be reminded of the history of a particular thing because,
> once out-of-mind, history tends to be rewritten by those who
> would advance in its new "interpretation."

I don't really want to know what you try to gain by this
"properly composed statement", heh.


Segher

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