Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750705AbWIYIXF (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:23:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750727AbWIYIXF (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:23:05 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([217.147.92.249]:54800 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750705AbWIYIXC (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:23:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:22:53 +0100 From: Russell King To: tridge@samba.org Cc: Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: Results of an informal GPLv3 poll amongst kernel contributors Message-ID: <20060925082253.GA25449@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: tridge@samba.org, Linux Kernel List References: <17687.33736.65658.258073@samba.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17687.33736.65658.258073@samba.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1464 Lines: 35 On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 05:22:48PM +1000, tridge@samba.org wrote: > Could you give some indication of how many of the people in this poll > have actually read the GPLv3 draft? Were they asked that? It would be rather crass to give a position on something you haven't read, especially if the results are to be published. > In a moment of weakness one of the people listed in the poll mentioned > to me that he hadn't actually read the draft. That is rather disappointing to hear. If the point of the poll was to collect people's whims instead of informed judgements (which is what it becomes if people didn't read the draft) then the result is meaningless and would be laughed at. I can only hope that everyone else did as I did and refused to give a response _until_ they had read the draft and thought about it. I also hope that whoever it was is now hiding in a corner feeling very sorry for themselves for having let the rest of us down. I think anyone who did respond to the poll but who hadn't read the draft should have their vote struck off and the results re-published. Very disappointed. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - 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/