Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Jun 2007 22:38 UTC, submitted by Robert Kratky
Alan Cox talks about cooperation with hardware vendors, patent law, microkernels, and GPLv3: "I think [the MS-Novell deal] is a bad idea and that Novell are going to get stung by the GPLv3, and rightfully so. The license is designed to keep the software free, if it fails to do this then it needs fixing, so GPLv3 hopefully will fix this flaw."
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>in what fundamental ways has the GPL changed that it would be a good thing for the Linux kernel to change?
Nothing fundamental has changed. GPLv3 just make sure that the GPL will work in the future as good as GPL has worked in the past.
The environment has changed, both technically and legally. To keep the GPL as good as everyone would expect it the GPL has to take care about the new environment.
Edited 2007-06-11 14:12
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GPLv3 - companies such as tivo/linksys cannot use GPLv3 code, modify it and not submit source changes back to the author.
That's true in GPLv2 as well. Tivo made all their kernel patches available for download.
they cannot use it to prevent people from being able to fairly use their product - i.e. no drm/dmca,
Last I checked there was nothing in GPLv3 that prevented you from implementing DRM, either playback of or encoding of. DMCA is something different and not relevant to GPLv3.
don't sue people for patents etc
That's already covered in GPLv2.