Re: [OT] Noticia: Ubuntu dice adiós para siempre a GNU/Linux

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:29:19 +0000
Esteban Monge <[email protected]> wrote:


> > 
> > Al menos eso es lo que se leía en los grupos de noticias por aquella época.



> No se donde viste eso, pero las declaraciones de Torvalds te
> contradicen, y lo cito, en inglés:
> "So that original copyright license was just me writing things up, there
> was pretty obviously no actual lawyerese or anything there.
> 
> The two important parts were the "full source has to be available" and
> "no money may be involved". The note about copyright notices was because
> I tended to hate the copyright boilerplate verbiage at the top of every
> single source file, so I knew there weren't all that many notices
> scattered in the sources themselves.
> 
> The "no money" part came about because I had been annoyed with (being a
> rather poor student) having to pay something like $169 USD for Minix,
> and that had been a fair amount of money to me. I felt that part of the
> point was to make something available to others in my situation, and
> that it really should be "free" in the actual money sense.
> 
> So for me, "free" as in "gratis" was actually an earlier concern than
> the whole "free as in freedom". I still happen to believe that being
> available even if you're a poor person who really doesn't have any money
> at all is at least as important as anything else, because that's a basic
> availability issue for many people."
> 
> Luego agrega que el cambio de licencia fue porque, lo cito de nuevo, en
> ingles:
> "Part of it was also because I felt that the availability of gcc was
> very important to the project, so picking the GPLv2 as a homage to gcc
> was appropriate.
> 
> Put another way: I still think that the availability issue is very
> important. But I think the GPL makes that a non-issue in practice, so
> making the license to be about the money side is pointless. And clearly
> _allowing_ the commercial side has been a very good thing for
> everybody."
> 
> Entonces nadie obligó a Torvalds, simplemente lo hizo como un homenaje a
> la licencia del GCC y porque quería eliminar la restricción de uso
> comercial que tenía el kernel original, además de que pensó que la GPL
> garantizaba que Linux podía seguir siendo gratis.
> 
> Fuente:
> https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/business/linus-torvalds-on-early-linux-history-gpl-license-and-money
> 


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