Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964909AbWBCFgl (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 00:36:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964910AbWBCFgl (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 00:36:41 -0500 Received: from mail1.webmaster.com ([216.152.64.168]:30218 "EHLO mail1.webmaster.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964909AbWBCFgk (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 00:36:40 -0500 From: "David Schwartz" To: Cc: , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: RE: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 21:35:22 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <200602022256.12213.ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> X-Authenticated-Sender: joelkatz@webmaster.com X-Spam-Processed: mail1.webmaster.com, Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:32:16 -0800 (not processed: message from trusted or authenticated source) X-MDRemoteIP: 206.171.168.138 X-Return-Path: davids@webmaster.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: davids@webmaster.com X-MDAV-Processed: mail1.webmaster.com, Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:32:17 -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1378 Lines: 36 > On Thursday 02 February 2006 02:11, David Schwartz wrote: > > The reason you can't modify the GPL, even we assume the GPL > > is licensed > > under the GPL, is because the GPL says you can't modify the GPL. > So you're saying that the two lines that are the GPL's copyright > license, are also part of the terms and conditions of the GPL, and act in > that capacity as a restriction of what you can do under Section 2? That's > an interesting argument, I might agree. Yes, the GPL is the license agreement for both the GPL and anything licensed under the GPL. > > It is logically impossible for the GPL to be GPL-incompatible. To be > > GPL-incomptabile, a license would have to contain requirements or > > restrictions not found in the GPL. How could the GPL possibly do that? > It's not the GPL doing that, it's the GPL's license. But perhaps the > restrictions of the license are also restrictions of the GPL, > they are part > of the text of that document after all. I have no idea what you mean by the "GPL's license". If it's contained in the GPL, it's part of the GPL. The GPL is all of a piece. DS - 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/