Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964809AbWIVRj4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:39:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964815AbWIVRj4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:39:56 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:1518 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964809AbWIVRjz (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:39:55 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:39:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jan Engelhardt cc: James Bottomley , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Results of an informal GPLv3 poll amongst kernel contributors In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1158939881.3445.16.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> 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: 1981 Lines: 48 On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > >These are basically just the votes and who voted. There's also a nice > >graphical tally but I'll attach that by replying to this message so it > >doesn't get eaten by people's "no mime at all" spam filters. > > > >Average Vote -2.0 +/- 0.7 > > No surprise here :) Well, I actually think there were some surprises to some people. The people involved with the vote were basically selected to be the most active kernel developers (by just doing some trivial statistics over the last 18 months and just picking the top ~30 people). I added Alan Cox to the list, just because, but basically it's otherwise a totally unbiased selection. And trust me when I say that we're an argumentative lot. Some people consider the kernel mailing list to be somewhat argumentative at times, but I think people are even more open in their opinions when they're allowed to vent freely. And we certainly had some "heated discussion" over a number of details, but as you can see from the actual votes, I think the conclusion people had come to (regardless of their opinions on some issues) were more uniform than you might have expected. I think a number of outsiders also believed that I personally was just the odd man out, because I've been so publicly not a huge fan of the GPLv3. So I think some people who see the results - especially people who haven't been active in kernel development themselves - might be surprised to see that I wasn't even an outlier in the kernel group. So I suspect your lack of surprise is because you've been on the kernel mailing list for too long, and already know the personalities of the people involved. 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/