Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 15th Jul 2007 16:12 UTC, submitted by shykid
Open Source infighting over the GPLv3 just turned nastier - in a post on the Linux kernel mailing list, Linus Torvalds effectively called the authors of the GPLv3 'hypocritical morons'. InformationWeek has reported on the issue: "Linux creator Linus Torvalds said the authors of a new software license expected to be used by thousands of open source programmers are a bunch of hypocrites and likened them to religious fanatics - the latest sign of a growing schism in the open source community between business-minded developers like Torvalds and free software purists."
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I haven't seen any GPLv3 authors telling Linus that he is doing something wrong by choosing GPLv2 over GPLv3. It is therefore obvious that Linus' comments were not directed at the GPLv3 authors. If you can provide some examples of *people actually involved in writing GPLv3* telling Linus that he is doing something wrong (rather than *something they personally do not agree with*, or *something different from what they would have done in his position*, neither of which are the same), then you will have proved that Linus' comments were aimed at someone involved in writing GPLv3. Until then, you have not proved your point. It's quite obvious that you're feeling vulnerable on this point by the fact that you added the weasel qualifier "and promoters" - well, yes, indeed, his comment was aimed at overzealous GPLv3 promoters, and there's nothing wrong with that.