Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 28th Sep 2006 15:36 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
Friday Several kernel developers issued a position paper criticizing the GPLv3 drafts. That prompted Software Freedom Law Center chairman Eben Moglen to issue a 'renewed invitation' yesterday to kernel developers to participate in the GPLv3 process. Linus Torvalds responded to Moglen's statement by saying that his position on the license is clear and that he's "fed up" with the FSF.
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2006-01-24
-"FSF's track record for listening to others who don't have the same point of view is worse than Microsoft's security record.
Maybe when the FSF stops pushing their ideals on everyone and actually takes two minutes to listen and attempt to understand this process will go smoother."
I'm sure they listen to linus, thing is they don't agree with him. FSF will not allow restrictive DRM, they want to protect open source projects from software patents. this is all in line with copyleft. when V2 was drafted, DRM and software patents weren't big issues, now they are. DRM allow you to bypass the end-users rights of being able to modify and run the GPL'ed code, as shown in the Tivo case. given what FSF stands for there is no way they could have accepted restrictive DRM, since it violates part of the four provisions which is the base of the GPL:
the freedom to use the software
the freedom to copy and share the software
the freedom to modify the software
the freedom to run and distribute modified software
Edited 2006-09-28 17:41