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    FromPatrick McFarland <>
    SubjectRe: Maybe it's time to fork the GPL License - create the Linux license?
    DateMon, 2 Oct 2006 05:25:05 -0400
    On Monday 02 October 2006 04:55, Marc Perkel wrote:
    > Just a thought. Suppose we forked the GPL2 license and created the Linux
    > license? (Or some better name) It's kind of clear the Stallman has his
    > own ajenda and that it's not compatible with the Linux model. So - lets
    > fork it an start a new one.
    >
    > The idea of the new license is as follows. It would be backwards
    > compatible with GPL2. It's would eliminate the "or later" clause because
    > we have already seen the potential for abuse there. How can one agree to
    > future licenses without knowing what they are going to be? The other
    > feature is that the license is only modified to provide legal
    > clarification or to deal with future issues that occur as a result of
    > new technology or circumstances that we don't know about yet. If the
    > licenses is modified then copyright holders would then have to
    > explicitly declare that they accept the modifications by switching to
    > the new terms.
    
    I'd be behind such a license if it was 100% functionally equivalent to the GPL 
    (ie, a reword just to get around the FSF Copyright of the GPL). I'd even 
    license my own code under it.
    
    Linus, you want to chime in here?
    
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    Patrick McFarland || http://AdTerrasPerAspera.com
    "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids,
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    listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo,
    Inc, 1989
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