[ale] What do y'all think about Microsoft's new war?

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:12 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> The kernel will most likely not move to the new version of the
> license, as you suggest, due in part to Linus' hesitations, and also
> in part due to the colossally diverse authorship which makes it
> difficult to get license update agreements from all of them. 


I seem to recall that he liked the last draft better than any of the
previous ones.  However, given that the Copyright isn't transferred to
Linus like it is to the FSF for GNU software, it would be exceedingly
difficult to switch over.

    ? Mike

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