Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161172AbWI1PAI (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:00:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161173AbWI1PAH (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:00:07 -0400 Received: from ns9.hostinglmi.net ([213.194.149.146]:43466 "EHLO ns9.hostinglmi.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161172AbWI1PAE (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:00:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:59:38 +0200 From: DervishD To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: Lennart Sorensen , Chase Venters , Sergey Panov , Linus Torvalds , Patrick McFarland , Theodore Tso , Alan Cox , Jan Engelhardt , James Bottomley , linux-kernel Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement Message-ID: <20060928145938.GA1474@DervishD> Mail-Followup-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , Lennart Sorensen , Chase Venters , Sergey Panov , Linus Torvalds , Patrick McFarland , Theodore Tso , Alan Cox , Jan Engelhardt , James Bottomley , linux-kernel References: <1158941750.3445.31.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <1159415242.13562.12.camel@sipan.sipan.org> <200609272339.28337.chase.venters@clientec.com> <20060928135510.GR13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20060928141932.GA707@DervishD> <20060928144028.GA21814@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20060928144028.GA21814@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: DervishD X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ns9.hostinglmi.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - dervishd.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2579 Lines: 56 Hi J?rn :) * J?rn Engel dixit: > On Thu, 28 September 2006 16:19:32 +0200, DervishD wrote: > > Probably the renaming is just common sense and will avoid ALL > > problems. People like me are concerned only because all GPLv2 that > > doesn't state otherwise will be released automagically under GPLv3 as > > soon as the latest draft is made the official version. Otherwise, I > > wouldn't give a hump about any new license until I have the time to > > read it and see if I like it. > > In my very uninformed opinion, your problem is a very minor one. > Your "v2 or later" code won't get the license v2 removed, it will > become dual "v2 or v3" licensed. And assuming that v3 only adds > restrictions and doesn't allow the licensee any additional rights, > you, as the author, shouldn't have to worry much. Really my problem is that I still don't fully understand neither the new license nor the possible effects, so just in case I want to decide if I want my code dual licensed or not. It's not a big worry, I know, but I prefer things that way. > The problem arises later. As with BSD/GPL dual licensed code, > where anyone can take the code and relicense it as either BSD or > GPL, "v2 or v3" code can get relicensed as v3 only. At this point, > nothing is lost, as the identical "v2 or v3" code still exists. > But with further development on the "v3 only" branch, you have a > fork. And one that doesn't just require technical means to get > merged back, but has legal restrictions. See? I didn't have seen things from this point of view, and that's the kind of problems I want to be aware of before allowing my code to be dual licensed. > And here the kernel wording with "v2 only" in the kernel is > interesting. It turns a one-way compatibility into no > compatibility at all. So the evolutionary advantage is lost, as it > only exists through the "v2 or later" term. Well, in my code that's exactly what I want regarding licenses. Probably GPLv3 is better (I don't know yet) and probably GPLv4 will be the best license out there, but I prefer to be precise about what license do I use. Thanks for your explanations :) Ra?l N??ez de Arenas Coronado -- Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen! - 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/