Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750918AbWBBRyu (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 12:54:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750930AbWBBRyu (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 12:54:50 -0500 Received: from [85.8.13.51] ([85.8.13.51]:20715 "EHLO smtp.drzeus.cx") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750853AbWBBRyt (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 12:54:49 -0500 Message-ID: <43E24767.1090708@drzeus.cx> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:54:47 +0100 From: Pierre Ossman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060119) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Alan Cox , Karim Yaghmour , Filip Brcic , Glauber de Oliveira Costa , Thomas Horsten , linux-kernel Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders References: <43DE57C4.5010707@opersys.com> <5d6222a80601301143q3b527effq526482837e04ee5a@mail.gmail.com> <200601302301.04582.brcha@users.sourceforge.net> <43E0E282.1000908@opersys.com> <43E1C55A.7090801@drzeus.cx> <1138891081.9861.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43E23C79.8050606@drzeus.cx> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 714 Lines: 19 Linus Torvalds wrote: > I _literally_ feel that we do not - as software developers - have the > moral right to enforce our rules on hardware manufacturers. We are not > crusaders, trying to force people to bow to our superior God. We are > trying to show others that co-operation and openness works better. > > Then I have to ask, why GPL and not a BSD license? GPL is after all, forcing our beliefs onto anyone who wishes to benefit from our work. Rgds Pierre - 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/