Messages in this thread | | | From | (Davide Libenzi) | Subject | Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux (follow-up to Anders Melchiorsen) | Date | Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:08:43 +0100 |
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>On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Riccardo Facchetti wrote: > >>No. GPL is the way we protect our software and it is not to be changed ... >>for nothing. If IBM think that GPL don't suit their needs, simply >>they don't use GPL'd software. I don't want to write software under an IBM >>license. > >Agreed.
Agreed ^ 2
>>No. _I_ will feel exploited if a version of linux kernel will be put on a >>different license that GPL. The problem here is that if you change license >>and give IBM the way of have an IBM/Linux kernel, I can predict that soon >>we will have two different kernel trees: GNU/Linux and IBM/Linux. >>No thanks. If they want to protect their patents, they have to deal with >>GPL in some way, nothing more and nothing less. >>And about IBM releasing sources of their commercial software in exchange, >>I am not convinced that this will be a great deal. > >Agreed!
Agreed ^ 3
>>PS: and I don't think Linux kernel is going to change its license only to >> suit IBM needs. This will become a precedent that hardly Linux >> developers will want to establish. And then what ? M$ asks us to give >> them Linux sources under a modified license ? How can you deny this ? >> For IBM you've done it and for M$ no ? Are you trying to boicott M$ >> market ? Do you want to have something to do with M$ lawyers ? (M$ is >> only an example here of course ... it can well be any big company out >> there) > >Agreedddd!! > >Andrea Arcangeli
Agreed ^ 4
IBM keep Your FAT HANDS away from Linux !!!!
Davide Libenzi.
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