Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751230AbWI1Pbk (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:31:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751912AbWI1Pbk (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:31:40 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:62366 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751230AbWI1Pbj (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:31:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:31:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= cc: Lennart Sorensen , Chase Venters , Sergey Panov , Patrick McFarland , Theodore Tso , Alan Cox , Jan Engelhardt , James Bottomley , linux-kernel Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement In-Reply-To: <20060928152020.GC21814@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Message-ID: 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> <20060928152020.GC21814@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="21872808-2004966641-1159457476=:3952" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1497 Lines: 37 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --21872808-2004966641-1159457476=:3952 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, J?rn Engel wrote: > > And this is an area where I slightly disagree with you. While I would > hope that you were right, I can easily imagine a judge ruling that "v2 > or later" in the preamble means that the project just signed a blank > license of the FSF's discretion. I think a judge could rule on almost anything, almost any way. Some judges seem to have less sense than a well-trained rabbit (see the lawsuit about "The Wind Done Gone", where at least one judge blocked it. Judges are just people, after all. So yes, clarifications are good. No question about that. There's a reason I added mine. Just to tell everybody else, and to make sure there's as little gray area in that place as humanly possible. So I'm not saying that "v2 only" language is _bad_. I'm just saying that it shouldn't matter. It's technically enough to just say "GPLv2", and you don't really have to say anything else. Linus --21872808-2004966641-1159457476=:3952-- - 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/