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    SubjectRe: Flame Linus to a crisp!
    Timothy Miller wrote:
    > Certainly. But say the GPL allows it, and say Linus decides he wants
    > it. There's nothing stopping someone else from forking it and deciding
    > they'll never accept any DRM-related code into their fork.

    True but if the GPL allows, nobody could prevent their fork becoming
    the heart of a DRM-locked product, either.

    I wonder whether the FSF shouldn't fork the GPLv3 into two versions,
    according to what philosophy GPLv2 users would like to adopt for their
    own projects :) (In principle, only the FSF is able to alter the
    license of a many-authored GPL'd project like Linux. It would be
    unfortunate if they used that special status to promote an agenda
    which a large number existing GPL users disliked).

    -- Jamie

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