Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756765AbXFMXQn (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:16:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754943AbXFMXQg (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:16:36 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:48433 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754533AbXFMXQf (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:16:35 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alan Cox , 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: <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> <20070610160531.GA12179@kroah.com> <20070612184110.GB7980@kroah.com> <20070613225743.42b80aef@the-village.bc.nu> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:15:42 -0300 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed\, 13 Jun 2007 15\:06\:51 -0700 \(PDT\)") 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: 1126 Lines: 27 On Jun 13, 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Alan Cox wrote: >> > find offensive, so I don't choose to use it. It's offensive because Tivo >> > never did anything wrong, and the FSF even acknowledged that. The fact >> Not all of us agree with this for the benefit of future legal >> interpretation. > Well, even the FSF lawyers did, Or rather they didn't think an attempt to enforce that in the US would prevail (or so I'm told). That's not saying what TiVo did was right, and that's not saying that what TiVo did was permitted by the license. Only courts of law can do that. -- 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/