[ANNOUNCE] upstart 0.5.2 released

[Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)]

Spoken like a true proponent of GPLv3 :-) If I was one, I would probably
think that way too.

But for me personally, I just love open source without any limits. I
cetainly don't believe in arm twisting anyone to open source anything.
Which is what it would be.
Infact BSD would be my favourite license. And GPLv2 and LGPL used
appropriately has made great sense to me as well.

Anyway, if you want to use upstart arm twist companies into using GPLv3.
All the best. That is definitely in the best interest of GPLv3

Personally, and very honestly I don't care which way the GPL v2 Vs V3
argument goes. It's a philosphical debate that is irrelevant in my mind.

But I do care very deeply about what is best for Linux and Upstart as a
technology.

But I hope the decisions we make in this alias are in the best interest
of Upstart and not GPLv3

Sarvi

-----Original Message-----
From: upstart-devel-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:upstart-devel-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Lennart
Poettering
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:13 PM
To: upstart-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] upstart 0.5.2 released

On Wed, 17.06.09 12:12, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) (sarvi at cisco.com)
wrote:

> Fedora and Redhat may not have issues with distributing GPLv3. 
> But I can guarantee you customers of Redhat, Monta Vista, etc which 
> include many large companies will have a problem with it. As I 
> understand it many of these companies do have a policy of not using 
> GPLv3.

After having spoken with some engineers of those companies there's
apparently a great way to solve this problem: make more and more
software GPLv3 and in the end said companies have no other option than
going along with it. And everyone wins.

Lennart

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