Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:50:35 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! |
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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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