Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 11:27:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 11:27:24 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:36356 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 11:27:23 -0500 Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 08:35:24 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: "David S. Miller" cc: zippel@linux-m68k.org, , , , , Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] klibc for 2.5.64 - try 2 In-Reply-To: <20030308.080317.27972826.davem@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1927 Lines: 44 On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, David S. Miller wrote: > > Note how I used the word "could" not "should" or "must". Yeah. And I note how Roman and others also didn't say "you _must_ change it to the GPL". The thing is, this discussion has _not_ been exactly neutral. You may have said "could" or "might" or whatever, but clearly people are trying to pressure hpa into going to GPL. It's the whole tone of the thread. Or would you disagree with that? Hey, I'm a GPL user myself, obviously. I don't much like the BSD license, and no project _I_ start is likely to ever be under that license. In fact, I seriously doubt that I'd ever really even want to get seriously involved with a project that could just be hijacked without source at any time. However, that doesn't make pressuring hpa about it ok. Also, you guys should think about what this whole project was about: it's about the smallest possible libc. This is NOT a project that should live and prosper and grow successful. That's totally against the whole point of it, it's not _supposed_ to ever be a glibc-like thing. It's supposed to be so damn basic that it's not even _interesting_. It's one of those projects that is better off ignored, in fact. It's like a glorified header file. (At this point hpa asks me to shut up, since I've now depressed him more than any of the GPL bigots ever did ;) I can _totally_ see hpa's point that he would be perfectly happy with people "stealing" parts of it - the code in question is not something that anybody should _ever_ have to re-create, even if he's the most evil person on earth and hates the GPL and wants to kill us all. Because it's not _worth_ recreating. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/