Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd

Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23T08:53:47Z

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:28:26PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>...
> A vote for continuing GPL in the kernel is a promote and enable the
> thieves on the world. Narrow vision of a utopian stupidity without a
> means to kick arse to defend the broader issues is ...
>...

For the FSF it's easy to change the copyright in their software since
they have copyright assignments for all software contributed.

There are _many_ people that have a copyright on parts of the Linux
kernel (the exact number might be different in different countries due
to different copyright laws). To change the copyright to anything other
than GPL v2 is practically impossible (even if a new version of the GPL
might fix the deficits you mentioned).

> Cheers
>
> Andre Hedrick

cu
Adrian

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