From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Summarizing the PWC driver questions/answers
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:58:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093625925.14552.16180.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040827162613.GB32244@kroah.com>
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 09:26 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Q: But you took away my freedom! Isn't Linux about freedom?
The GPL provides is a very _specific_ kind of freedom. It has its own
restrictions -- in many ways it's less free than if we were to just
release our code to the public domain, or under a BSD-style licence.
That is intentional.
> Q: You are keeping companies from wanting to write binary drivers for
> Linux.
Again, that is intentional. People are free to go use BSD if the GPL is
not compatible with their desires. Or Windows, perhaps.
People seem to be whining that Linux is released under the GPL instead
of a BSD licence. Perhaps the users concerned should be gently
encouraged to go elsewhere?
Linus was _joking_ when he said 'world domination'.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-27 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-27 16:26 Greg KH
2004-08-27 16:58 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2004-08-27 18:26 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 19:05 ` Ian Romanick
2004-08-27 20:36 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 16:58 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-08-27 17:54 ` Roman Zippel
2004-08-27 18:51 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2004-08-27 20:31 ` Greg KH
2004-08-30 17:31 ` Brian Litzinger
2004-08-30 18:24 ` Jeff Kinz
2004-08-30 19:28 ` viro
2004-08-30 20:11 ` Kenneth Lavrsen
2004-08-27 19:54 Kenneth Lavrsen
2004-08-27 20:22 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-27 20:30 ` David Ford
2004-08-27 21:26 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 20:32 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-08-27 21:25 ` Jesper Juhl
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.61.0408272259450.2771@dragon.hygekrogen.localho st>
2004-08-27 22:08 ` Kenneth Lavrsen
2004-08-27 23:01 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-08-28 0:22 ` Paul Jakma
2004-08-30 12:04 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-08-28 21:07 linux
2004-08-28 22:06 ` Oliver Neukum
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