J'attends avec impatience la réponse de RMS.
Je trouve que le point 5.3 qu'ils soulèvent est particulièrement faible et je pense que RMS va leur tomber dessus à ce sujet.
En gros le sujet c'est que la GPLv3 menace d'invalider tous les brevets logiciels d'une entreprise qui diffuse un soft sous GPLv3.
Les devs pensent que c'est inacceptable et que ça va faire fuir les entreprises qui sont indispensables à l'avancement de Linux :
Further, some companies who also act as current distributors of Linux have significant patent portfolios; thus this clause represents another barrier to their distributing Linux and as such is unacceptable
RMS va répliquer (n'en doutont pas) qu'il ne faut pas sacrifier l'éthique même si le prix à payer est une diminution du soutien des entreprises.
Enfin bon...sinon un autre truc intéressant : un sondage sur la liste de diffusion Linux afin d'évaluer ce que pensent les devs de la GPLv3.
Vote key:
I wouldn't want to use v3 (I really dislike it, or my
company would have serious problems allowing me
-3 to participate using the v3 draft)
-2 I think v3 is much worse than v2
-1 I think v2 is better, but I don't care that deeply
0 I don't really care at all
1 I think v3 is better, but I don't care that deeply
2 I think v3 is much better than v2
I wouldn't want to use v2 (I really dislike it, or my
company would have serious problems allowing me
3 to participate using the GPLv2)
These votes are opinions of the persons listed in their capacities as
kernel maintainers only. In no regard should any opinion expressed
herein be construed to represent the views of any entities employing
or being associated with any of the authors.
Name Vote
==== ====
Linus Torvalds -2.5
Alan Cox -2.0
James Bottomley -3.0
Ingo Molnar -1.0
Tony Luck -2.0
Neil Brown -1.0
Al Viro -2.0
Jeff Garzik -2.0
Mauro Carvalho Chehab -2.0
Arjan van de Ven -3.0
David Woodhouse -2.0
Greg Kroah Hartman -3.0
Ralf Baechle -1.5
Stephen Hemminger -2.0
Andrew Morton -3.0
Dmitry Torokhov -2.0
Tejun Heo -2.0
Thomas Gleixner -3.0
Takashi Iwai -2.0
Trond Myklebust -2.5
Roland Dreier -2.0
Dave Jones -2.0
Russell King -2.0
John W. Linville -2.0
Andi Kleen -2.0
Patrick McHardy -1.0
David S. Miller 0.0
Christoph Hellwig -2.0
Paul Mackerras -1.0
Total Votes Cast 29
Average Vote -2.0 +/- 0.7
Lowest Vote -3.0
Highest Vote 0.0
Median Vote -2.0
# Ca va chauffer !
Posté par patrick_g (site web personnel) . En réponse au journal L'avis de 10 développeurs Linux sur la GPL3 (draft). Évalué à 5.
Je trouve que le point 5.3 qu'ils soulèvent est particulièrement faible et je pense que RMS va leur tomber dessus à ce sujet.
En gros le sujet c'est que la GPLv3 menace d'invalider tous les brevets logiciels d'une entreprise qui diffuse un soft sous GPLv3.
Les devs pensent que c'est inacceptable et que ça va faire fuir les entreprises qui sont indispensables à l'avancement de Linux :
Further, some companies who also act as current distributors of Linux have significant patent portfolios; thus this clause represents another barrier to their distributing Linux and as such is unacceptable
RMS va répliquer (n'en doutont pas) qu'il ne faut pas sacrifier l'éthique même si le prix à payer est une diminution du soutien des entreprises.
Enfin bon...sinon un autre truc intéressant : un sondage sur la liste de diffusion Linux afin d'évaluer ce que pensent les devs de la GPLv3.
Vote key:
I wouldn't want to use v3 (I really dislike it, or my
company would have serious problems allowing me
-3 to participate using the v3 draft)
-2 I think v3 is much worse than v2
-1 I think v2 is better, but I don't care that deeply
0 I don't really care at all
1 I think v3 is better, but I don't care that deeply
2 I think v3 is much better than v2
I wouldn't want to use v2 (I really dislike it, or my
company would have serious problems allowing me
3 to participate using the GPLv2)
These votes are opinions of the persons listed in their capacities as
kernel maintainers only. In no regard should any opinion expressed
herein be construed to represent the views of any entities employing
or being associated with any of the authors.
Name Vote
==== ====
Linus Torvalds -2.5
Alan Cox -2.0
James Bottomley -3.0
Ingo Molnar -1.0
Tony Luck -2.0
Neil Brown -1.0
Al Viro -2.0
Jeff Garzik -2.0
Mauro Carvalho Chehab -2.0
Arjan van de Ven -3.0
David Woodhouse -2.0
Greg Kroah Hartman -3.0
Ralf Baechle -1.5
Stephen Hemminger -2.0
Andrew Morton -3.0
Dmitry Torokhov -2.0
Tejun Heo -2.0
Thomas Gleixner -3.0
Takashi Iwai -2.0
Trond Myklebust -2.5
Roland Dreier -2.0
Dave Jones -2.0
Russell King -2.0
John W. Linville -2.0
Andi Kleen -2.0
Patrick McHardy -1.0
David S. Miller 0.0
Christoph Hellwig -2.0
Paul Mackerras -1.0
Total Votes Cast 29
Average Vote -2.0 +/- 0.7
Lowest Vote -3.0
Highest Vote 0.0
Median Vote -2.0