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Re: Vista question

de Â»QÂ« 06/26/2006 03:35

renan@bogus.nil (Renan(r)) wrote in
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>> Better the devil you know I say, If everyone switched to Linux
>> tomorrow and ditched MS, They too would see the $$$$ signs and
>> start charging heaps for it.
>
> Even if they did, older versions would still be available (the GPL
> enforces this) and a "fork" (derivate work) of the old application
> could still be done.

I don't think it's even possible for Torvalds himself to change the
license of the kernel. The copyright belongs to him "and others who
actually wrote it"[1]. AIUI, he'd have to get them all to agree to a
new license, and some of them are pretty adamantly behind the notion of
free software. As for the GNU stuff, the FSF controls all its
copyrights, so there's no chance it won't be GPLed at any point.

[1] <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/COPYING>

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