Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750971AbWIWH2Z (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:28:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750999AbWIWH2Z (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:28:25 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:46274 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750899AbWIWH2Y (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:28:24 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:28:22 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: davids@webmaster.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The GPL: No shelter for the Linux kernel? Message-Id: <20060923002822.a389b5e5.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.3; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1078 Lines: 26 > However, what happens if three years from now, ... Yes - the asteroid may destroy us all. But the greater, almost inevitable, risk comes from the centralization of too much power. Once an authority exists to unilaterally impose a license change on Linux, it becomes like the ring in The Lord of the Rings, a thing of evil potential. Best not to create the ring in the first place. Besides, I suspect my company's lawyer might discourage me from submitting patches to the kernel if its license could be unilaterally changed by some third party, whether Linus or even the esteemed David S. To the top 30 maintainers who performed this GPLv3 analysis - nice job. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401 - 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/