linux-kernel - Re: The linux devs can rescind their license grant.

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Date:   Fri, 26 Oct 2018 06:49:36 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:     esr@...rsus.com, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        visionsofalice@...chan.it,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, rms@....org,
        bruce@...ens.com, moglen@...umbia.edu, bkuhn@...onservancy.org,
        editor@....net, NeilBrown <neil@...wn.name>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Mishi Choudhary <mishi@...ux.com>,
        linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The linux devs can rescind their license grant.

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:28:36PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>:
> > 	* in case it needs to be spelled out: I am not at all interested
> > in that kind of stunts.  One of the reasons I thoroughly despise RMS
> > and his bunch is the leverage game they tried to play with GPLv3;
> > damned if I'm going to lower myself to their level.
> 
> Sorry, I did not mean to imply that you are one with the license-revokers.
> More like "if even Al Viro thinks you fucked up your process, it would be
> unwise to dismiss the opposition to the CoC as mere trolls".

Kindly stop conflating opposition to CoC with that kind of idiocy.