Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932653AbWLSIaa (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:30:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932661AbWLSIa3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:30:29 -0500 Received: from mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.48.8]:36012 "EHLO mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932653AbWLSIa3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:30:29 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1817 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:30:29 EST To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alexandre Oliva , Ricardo Galli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL only modules References: <200612161927.13860.gallir@gmail.com> From: Sanjoy Mahajan Date: 19 Dec 2006 08:00:00 +0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 847 Lines: 18 Linus Torvalds wrote: > That said, I think they are still pushing the "you don't have any > rights unless we give you additional rights explicitly" angle a bit > too hard. >From section 2 (GPLv3, draft 2): This License acknowledges your rights of "fair use" or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law. By choosing 'acknowledges' as the verb, the licensee says explicitly that fair-use rights are already yours, not that they are being given to you. -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1. - 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/