linux-kernel - Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

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Message-ID: <451B5EE8.1000207@garzik.org>
Date:	Thu, 28 Sep 2006 01:34:32 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Sergey Panov <sipan@...an.org>
CC:	Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Patrick McFarland <diablod3@...il.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...eleye.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

Sergey Panov wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 01:15 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Chase Venters wrote:
>>> The final GPLv3 may indeed go too far for many open-source supporters. But 
>>> then again, it is the FSF's license, and it should at least not surprise 
>>> anyone if they are more concerned with the ideals of the license rather than 
>>> current market realities. Market conditions change; ideals generally don't.
>> As long as you can admit that FSF is divorced from reality...
> 
> ??? Ideals are always divorced from reality. But some shape it, and some
> are irrelevant.


Since we have to deal with the reality of the license, I guess that 
means GPLv3 is irrelevant.

	Jeff


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