Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757801AbXFMJlY (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:41:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755634AbXFMJlR (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:41:17 -0400 Received: from mail.enyo.de ([212.9.189.167]:3644 "EHLO mail.enyo.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755597AbXFMJlR (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:41:17 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1280 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:41:16 EDT From: Florian Weimer To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Tarkan Erimer , debian developer , "david@lang.hm" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu, greg@kroah.com Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <18026.16739.228277.938421@notabene.brown> <20070609071231.GL2649@lug-owl.de> <466BB9B0.5030908@netone.net.tr> <466BCBBC.90305@netone.net.tr> <466C0901.4000405@netone.net.tr> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:19:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:29:04 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: <87d500rz2r.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> 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: 957 Lines: 21 * Linus Torvalds: > I consider dual-licensing unlikely (and technically quite hard), but at > least _possible_ in theory. I have yet to see any actual *reasons* for > licensing under the GPLv3, though. All I've heard are shrill voices about > "tivoization" (which I expressly think is ok) In a strange twist, the last-call draft contains a clause that expressly permits some forms of "tivoization", provided a suitable contractual arrangement exists ("Basic Permissions", second paragraph). Now a lot of the free software market follows this "sell yourself into slavery" model (and even the FSF recommends to make money this way), but I'm not sure if it's a good idea to state it so plainly in the license. - 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/