Why Torvalds is Sitting out the GPLv3 Process

lisah writes "Linus Torvalds has a lot of reasons for not wanting to participate in drafting the third version of the GNU General Public License (GPL): He doesn't like meetings, says committees don't make sense, has philosophical differences with the Free Software Foundation, and seems to be generally distrustful of the whole drafting process. Though Torvalds prefers the GPLv2, he says if others prefer the GPLv3, they ought to support it because 'it's not like it kills and eats small children for breakfast, and must never be allowed.'" Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

I'm holding out

[stox]

for the kills small children and eats them for lunch license. Dinner would be OK, too, but not breakfast.

Re:I'm holding out

[kfg]

Everyone knows the GPL is a virus. Maybe it's one of them flesh eating virus thingies.

KFG

Re:I'm holding out

[db32]

Quite frankly I'm dissapointed. It SHOULD kill small children and eat them for any meal! We need to make sure it can determine the outcome of any given child's future. Future lawyers...kill em n eat em... Future **AA employees... kill em n eat em... Future DRM creators... warm them up and eat them alive so we can all hear them scream... Future MS programmers...kill them but don't eat them...lord knows what kind of evil sits in their minds waiting to come out.

Torvalds: I'm going to fucking bury the FSF!

[Anonymous Coward]

Have a chair.

Re:The GPL3 process is not closed

[morgan_greywolf]

Please explain how a license can "crumble".

The original GPLv2 was, in fact, printed on a giant cookie.

Re:The GPL3 process is not closed

[noidentity]

The original GPLv2 was, in fact, printed on a giant cookie.

Jokes aside, the GPLv2 was, in fact, chiseled into a large stone tablet. Those things most certainly crumble after a few millennia.

Re:The GPL3 process is not closed

[Schraegstrichpunkt]

My people! From RMS, I bring you these eighteen... (crash!) um... twelve sections of the GPL version two!

Re:No, it's the pragmatic attitude of me.

[zaphod_es]

.... to Bob's Fine China and Firearm Emporium, Inc. Deal with it.

Is that Microsoft Bob? I often wonder what happened to him. Smart move to go into retailing, he was never cut out for the computer business.

Caveman, kill, eat!

[Anonymous Coward]

it's not like it kills and eats small children for breakfast

GPL3 may not look like that, but Stallman does!!