Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757786AbXFMWiq (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:38:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755649AbXFMWij (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:38:39 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:39293 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754979AbXFMWii (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:38:38 -0400 To: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Cc: Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , debian developer , "david\@lang.hm" , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <466BCBBC.90305@netone.net.tr> <20070610160531.GA12179@kroah.com> <20070612184110.GB7980@kroah.com> <20070613211432.GH10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:38:14 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20070613211432.GH10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (Lennart Sorensen's message of "Wed\, 13 Jun 2007 17\:14\:32 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) 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: 1926 Lines: 43 On Jun 13, 2007, lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > I believe a number of people don't think the GPL v3 is in the same > spirit as the GPL v2. I guess it comes down to what people thought the > spirit of the GPL v2 was. So let's go back to the preamble, that provides motivations and some guidance as to the interpretation of the legal text (i.e., the spirit of the license): [...] the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. [...] [...] Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things. To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it. [...] if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have Can anyone show me how any of the provisions of GPLv3 fails to meet this spirit? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} - 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/