Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 | From | Alexandre Oliva <> | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:13:48 -0300 |
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On Jun 19, 2007, Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net> wrote:
> Only, your statement above seems to run counter to your previous claims > that the "anti-tivoisation" provisions of GPLv3 would bring _more_ > developers to copyleft software.
> So which one is it?
We might lose your contributions, that's true, I've never ever denied that. And this will even have a cost for you, especially if you go proprietary rather than some other more liberal Free Software license, or stick with a GPLv2 Linux and hope it's never ruled as prohibiting tivoization, or move to Linux on ROM.
But it takes only a small fraction of the tivoizers to decide to take out the locks, when faced with the costs mentioned above, for us to gain contributions from even a small fraction of their user base (which would then grow in hacker density as a result of non-tivoization) for us to end up better off.
Or so I believe ;-)
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