Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751043AbWI1Jm1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:42:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751809AbWI1Jm0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:42:26 -0400 Received: from wohnheim.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.233.138]:2530 "EHLO wohnheim.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751043AbWI1JmZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:42:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:41:35 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Chase Venters , Theodore Tso , Alan Cox , Jan Engelhardt , Sergey Panov , James Bottomley , linux-kernel Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement Message-ID: <20060928094135.GB17873@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <1159319508.16507.15.camel@sipan.sipan.org> <1159342569.2653.30.camel@sipan.sipan.org> <1159359540.11049.347.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060927225815.GB7469@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1650 Lines: 39 On Wed, 27 September 2006 17:18:42 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > In fact, most programmers _still_ probably > don't care. A lot of people use a license not because they "chose" > it, but because they work on a project where somebody else chose the > license for them originally. s/most programmers/some programmers/ While I can only speak for myself, I definitely had to make a decision a couple of times without starting a kernel myself. Red Hat wanted me to sign a piece of small-font paper assigning my copyright to JFFS2 over to them. My thoughts at the time were along the lines of "What the fuck!!" and I had a lot of thinking to do, but didn't sign it. My graph traversion code I did for my thesis should have been merged into gcc, but I didn't even bother sending a patch. Copyright assign my ***, thank you very much. And that is in fact the primary reason, hacking gcc has been fun and I would like to do more, from a purely technical point of view. But having to sign a large amount of legalese is the kind of thing I may have to do for a job, and they pay me for it. It is not the kind of thing I do for fun. No fun, no money - hell, why should I do something like that?!? Thank you for not requiring copyright assignments, Linus. J?rn -- People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. -- unknown - 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/