Re: [ossig] CA open-sources Ingres database - News & Technology - CNETAsia

[Kenneth Wong <ken@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 27 May 2004 17:18, Dinesh Nair wrote:
> no, they don't. however, what if the principal project authors do,
> say linus releasing kernel 3.2 under GPLv3 ? (i know, using the
> kernel as an analogy for the client-server thing is not apt, but you
> get the picture)

If there's sufficient opposition, then they just fork kernel 3.0 (or 
last stable) and keep it under GPLv2. Besides, Linus is spiritual 
leader more than dictator. He can't really change kernel to another 
license (other than upgrade to GPLv3 as provided by GPLv2) because all 
the other parts are owned by too many people.

> well, like i said, i'm believing that this is more towards a language
> issue rather than anything intentional.

Bah. They have too many good English speaking lawyers working for them 
for me to believe this. Nor does the English on that site show any of 
the stiffness or peculiarities that a non-fluent speaker of English 
would put in. This is intentional.

-- 
Kenneth Wong
IOSN Programme Consultant, UNDP-APDIP, Malaysia
DID: +603 2091 5169 Fax: +603 2093 9740
International Open Source Network: http://www.iosn.net
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