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You can thank Linus for that, i.e. for refusing to upgrade to GPLv3. GPLv3 deals with this problem exactly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization http://en
by grover_hartmann 12y ago
You can thank Linus for that, i.e. for refusing to upgrade to GPLv3.
GPLv3 deals with this problem exactly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
- amyjess 12y agoNot his call. Every individual kernel developer owns their own contributions. Even if Linus were to move his own contributions to GPLv3 and require GPLv3 for all new contributions, he'd still have to get permission from every single individual who ever contributed code from the kernel. Some of these people are dead, so he'd have to deal with their next of kin (or more likely, their lawyers), who might be even more difficult to deal with.
- grover_hartmann 12y agoI understand, sorry about that.
- davexunit 12y ago>Not his call. The mistake was leaving out the "or, at your option, any later version" clause. That would have allowed new kernel code to be GPLv3+ licensed.
- topkekz 12y ago"Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for" https://youtu.be/PaKIZ7gJlRU https://youtu.be/PaKIZ7gJlRU