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Originally Posted by knc1
Check out his opinion on GPLv3.
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As you wish...
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- GPLv3 broke "the" GPL into incompatible forks that can't share code.
- Linux and Samba can't share code, implement 2 ends of same protocol.
- QEMU caught between GPLv2 Linux drivers and GPLv3 binutils/gdb processor instruction set descriptions. Can't take code from both.
- "GPLv2 or later" give to both but can't take code from _either_one_.
- FSF expected universal compliance, but hijacked lifeboat clause when boat wasn't sinking. GPLv2 not rendered unenforceable, they just pulled a Darth Vader "I am altering the bargain, pray I don't alter it any further." And then shipped The Phantom Meanance.
- This has poisoned copyleft. GPL use declining. Multiple GPLv3 successor projects - The one thing GPLv3 achieved was undermining GPLv2.
- fragmentation only increasing ...
- aboriginal linux (Ab Origine: latin, "from the beginning") ...
- A linux that even the FSF can't stick a GNU/ on the front of. |
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Phantom Meanance" sounds like a
sniglet for "Menace, Meanness, and Maintenance".
Phantom Maintenance sounds like how he described the slow death of uClinux:
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uClinux ... Seriously, there's a lot of crap in there. It's hard to analyze most of it far enough to prove it _doesn't_ do anything. ... The uClinux project can rest in peace.
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And of course, an embedded version of the XKCD he linked to above:
