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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> Seeing as Linus himself has stated that he has absolutely no intention |
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> of changing the license on the kernel, your idea is unworkable. |
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My idea is not to mess with either the GPL2/3 applications nor the |
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gplv2 kernel. What ever is under the "Gentoo" umbrella could conceivably |
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be changed to a BSD style license. In those areas where it cannot then |
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just leave it GPLed or code around the GPL until it is minimized. |
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I could easily see a FPGA partioned into a multi processor system, |
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with published GPL code on one core and code under a new, Entrepreneurial |
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license on a different part of the FPGA cores. In fact, one could network |
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two x86 machines, one running as a GPL linux system and the other |
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running Entrepreneurial code from a different license, as a development |
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platform. |
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In my opinion we are on the verge of truly distributed computing where |
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Open Source GPL(ed) systems and devices will integrate with old fashion |
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(closed source) products, in a rapid fashion. The Gentoo devs could get out |
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in front of the revolution, and spawn lots of Entrepreneurs, or they |
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can follow MS and leave the GPL shackles around their necks. (I sure |
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hope they do not try to cross the river).... |
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The point I was trying to may (and not really a hard sell but just to |
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illuminate moving gentoo into more of an "Entrepreneur distro") |
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would be to build the future of Gentoo (or a fork) on a better license |
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model than GPL. GPL has worked reasonable well, but things have changed |
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quit a lot. It's time for folks to leverage Open Source to make money. |
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You want to live on Massa's Farm, that's your choice. I have tasted |
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(economic) freedom and it drives me mad how the masses of folks just |
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'get in line' with what they hear over the loud speakers...... |
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Oh well, I'm done with this issue. I don't think I can help, lifting the |
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(Gentoo) devs nor the greater Gentoo user base out of economic despair , if |
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folks do not agree with moving to a different licensing scheme, for the unique |
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work that characterizes and surrounds Gentoo. |
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GPL is a vow of poverty, IMHO. It sure will be interesting to see where |
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Daniel and the trustees take/leave the distro........ My guess is |
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Daniel has seen, smelled and maybe lightly tasted the flavors of |
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economic success, and some influential folks and poked him in the |
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ribs and said (pissst, isn't gentoo your prodigy? take that puppy |
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public and cash in.....) |
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just a hunch, |
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James |
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