P� fredag, 01 april 2005, skrev Peter Jay Salzman: > On Fri 01 Apr 05, 10:56 AM, Micah Cowan said: > > Bob Scofield wrote: > > >I can't find anything about this on the CNN website. And judging from the > > >two replies to this message I don't know if this is serious. > > > > It wasn't. I was almost willing to accept it at first, but even then, I > > knew one simple fact: no matter what Linus' intentions might be, it is > > legally impossible for him (or anyone else) to relicense Linux as > > anything other than GPL. This is because he doesn't own the Linux source > > code: only a small fraction of it, basically. That and the trademarked > > name "Linux", itself. In order to change the lincese, the entire > > community of everyone who ever contributed source code to Linux would > > have to agree with the move, which is of course logistically impossible. > > > > Happy April Fool's Day! :-) > > > > -Micah > > Heh. The prankster speaks. This morning, I woke up (much earlier than all > of you since I'm on the east coast now), and read /. with my morning coffee. > > There was an article about Brittanica taking over Wikipedia. The article > was _really_ well written. I became incensed and started planning on how to > drum up support for wikipedia. I went over the main site to see if there > was anything I could do to help out. > > Then I saw the picture of Encyclopedia Brittanica "agents" with semi > automatic weapons and combat gear. At that point, it dawned on me today was > April 1st. That set the gears in motions...
Do you have a URL that you could share? The prank seems to have been taken down already. The Linux relicencing hoax had me going for a few moments too :-) because it is in fact based on a kernel of truth: Linux is licensed under the GPL, version 2 (i.e., 2 and 2 only, not "version 2 or at your option any later version" as most GPL-licensed code is). This means that Linux will not migrate to GPL version 3 when it becomes available because it will not be feasible to obtain agreement from all code contributors to do so. This issue was recently discussed by the Debian developers. See: <http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/debian-news-2005/msg00012.html> -- Henry House +1 530 753 3361 ext. 13 Please don't send me HTML mail! My mail system usually rejects it. The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> to find out how to use it. My OpenPGP key: <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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