Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Fri Sep 22 2006 - 16:43:03 EST


James Bottomley wrote:
Although this white paper was discussed amongst the full group of kernel
developers who participated in the informal poll, as you can expect from
Linux Kernel Developers, there was a wide crossection of opinion. This
document is really only for discussion, and represents only the views of
the people listed as authors (not the full voting pool).

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The Dangers and Problems with GPLv3


James E.J. Bottomley Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Thomas Gleixner Christoph Hellwig Dave Jones
Greg Kroah-Hartman Tony Luck Andrew Morton
Trond Myklebust David Woodhouse


To the slashdot, LWN, etc. crowd: please re-read the first paragraph, quoted above.

The whitepaper only represents the views of the people listed as authors.

That is distinct from the people who voted against GPL v3 in its current form (for some or even none of the whitepaper-listed reasons).

Jeff


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