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I see that the Linux Foundation has posted a blog opposed to this. I wonder if they could single-handedly destroy this legislation by revoking the license for L
by kevincox 3y ago
I see that the Linux Foundation has posted a blog opposed to this. I wonder if they could single-handedly destroy this legislation by revoking the license for Linux in the EU.
Of course this would be difficult because existing contributions can't be relicensed. But they could maybe start accepting new patches with a non-Eurpoe license. Or does the GPL prevent this as they are building on GPL code and need the same license? I double the EU would be ok with running on outdated Linux or trying to maintain their own.
- perceptronas 3y agoMy gut feeling is that EU wouldn't cave and would be OK on running on outdated Linux. There is really no citizen influence on block wide policies so I doubt a protests would work or that any majority of non-technical people would care.
- peddling-brink 3y agoMicrosoft would be thrilled.
- joshuaissac 3y agoThey cannot revoke the licence under the GPL. If new patches are under a non-Europe licence, then they cannot be combined and redistributed with the existing GPLv2 codebase. There is a provision in section 8 of the GPLv2 that allows excluding certain countries, but it can only be activated in the face of copyright or patent restrictions on the distribution of the software. IANAL, but one approach to activate this provision might be to implement a patented technique within the kernel, for which the patent licence only allows implementations outside the EU.