Linus Torvalds says Linux kernel will remain GPL v2

[Derek Broughton]

Mario Vukelic wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 22:47 -0500, Michael R. Head wrote:
>> So, according to the RFC, posting a long URL (as long as it's less
>> than 998 characters in length) is OK.
>> 
>> Go forth and unfold your URLs!
> 
> You misunderstood. It's not a questions of actively folding URLs, or a
> question of whether you agree with the RFC.
> 
> It's simply that many mail readers implement the RFC such that long
> lines are folded, period. And as a consequence, clicking the a long
> folded URL ceases to work.

Many of them, of course, expect the line to then be "unfolded" - but too
darn many mail programs don't understand the "text/flowed" format.
-- 
derek