Re: Linus about GPL x BSD(long)

Anthony Taylor <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:39:31 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.wine.license
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Brett Glass wrote:

>Linus Torvalds has no choice. He's licensed his code under the GPL
>and accepted an untold number of GPLed contributions. He now could 
>not relicense it if he wanted to. He's rationalizing.
>
>--Brett Glass
>  
>

How do you know this?  You are making a statement of fact ("He's 
Rationalizing.") based on knowledge you do not (and can not) have. 
 Perhaps Linus really *does* feel this way.  Perhaps he has never 
desired to change the license.

The sort of freshman rhetoric is beneath you, Brett.  Your arguments, 
however wrong I might think them, are usually more sophisticated than this.

            - Tony "I Don't Speak For Linus, Either" Taylor