Spoken like a true proponent of GPLv3 :-) If I was one, I would probably think that way too.
But for me personally, I just love open source without any limits. I cetainly don't believe in arm twisting anyone to open source anything. Which is what it would be. Infact BSD would be my favourite license. And GPLv2 and LGPL used appropriately has made great sense to me as well. Anyway, if you want to use upstart arm twist companies into using GPLv3. All the best. That is definitely in the best interest of GPLv3 Personally, and very honestly I don't care which way the GPL v2 Vs V3 argument goes. It's a philosphical debate that is irrelevant in my mind. But I do care very deeply about what is best for Linux and Upstart as a technology. But I hope the decisions we make in this alias are in the best interest of Upstart and not GPLv3 Sarvi -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lennart Poettering Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] upstart 0.5.2 released On Wed, 17.06.09 12:12, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) ([email protected]) wrote: > Fedora and Redhat may not have issues with distributing GPLv3. > But I can guarantee you customers of Redhat, Monta Vista, etc which > include many large companies will have a problem with it. As I > understand it many of these companies do have a policy of not using > GPLv3. After having spoken with some engineers of those companies there's apparently a great way to solve this problem: make more and more software GPLv3 and in the end said companies have no other option than going along with it. And everyone wins. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- upstart-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/upstart-devel -- upstart-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/upstart-devel
