Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932381AbWBAAoN (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:44:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932387AbWBAAoM (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:44:12 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:48333 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932381AbWBAAoL (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:44:11 -0500 Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Jeff V. Merkey" , Chase Venters , "linux-os \\(Dick Johnson\\)" , Kyle Moffett , Marc Perkel , Patrick McLean , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <43D114A8.4030900@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20060120111103.2ee5b531@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> <43D13B2A.6020504@cs.ubishops.ca> <43D7C780.6080000@perkel.com> <43D7B20D.7040203@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43D7B5C4.5040601@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43D7D05D.7030101@perkel.com> <1138387136.26811.8.camel@localhost> <1138620390.31089.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43DF9D42.7050802@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43DFB0F2.4030901@wolfmountaingroup.com> <1138751318.10316.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:45:08 +0000 Message-Id: <1138754708.10316.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1678 Lines: 41 On Maw, 2006-01-31 at 16:18 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > That said, I think it actually hass one big result: we may be discussing > this for a couple of weeks, but I'm pretty sure we won't be discussing it > for months and having a huge split over it in the kernel community. Agreed > Do unto others.. and so on. This is how you spot a lawyer from a normal human. The human agrees but the lawyer says "but what about my dentist, will he really want me to drill his teeth" ;) > So I'm spending time on this thread trying to make sure that everybody > realizes that GPLv2 was always the license of choice - people may still The intent is clear by any view for current code, and the past is for argument but equally its unfixable whatever the result. > I was always surprised by how anybody could _possibly_ worry about that > one, but it did come up very early. I forget exactly when, but I think > that clarification was added way before Linux-1.0. > > In general, people worry too much. Its the job of some of them to worry. After all many of them have shareholders to answer for, and whether they worry about misusing your pension fund or whether they'll still get a new yacht if there is a lawsuit, they worry. I've actually talked to a number of people for whom the syscall clarification was critical to their choice to produce software for Linux so don't underestimate your smart planning in advance ;) Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/