On Jun 17, 2007, "Gabor Czigola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wonder why the linux kernel development community couldn't propose > an own GPL draft (say v2.2) that is "as free as v2" and that includes > some ideas (from v3) that are considered as good (free, innovative, in > the spirit of whatever etc.) by the majority of the kernel developers. For one, because the text of the GPL is copyrighted by the FSF, and licensed without permission for modification. And that's as it should be, you don't want others to modify the terms of the license you chose for your code, do you? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
