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Thrax
13 Jun 2007, 3:58am
As TheInq (http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40264) reports, Linus Torvalds continues with his disapproval of the new GPL v3 licensing model. With elements to undermine the Novell-Microsoft partnership and blanket-ban DRM schema, Torvalds claims it's more "Religion" than sense.

Gargoyle
13 Jun 2007, 6:00pm
Agreed with Mr. Torvalds. v3's bleeding-heart "wouldn't everything be nice if we shared" language means anything with any GPL3'd code at all would have to be friendly to modification. Which means commercial use of open-source code suddenly becomes very risky.