Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752700AbXFNFZe (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:25:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750936AbXFNFZ1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:25:27 -0400 Received: from gateway.insightbb.com ([74.128.0.19]:14724 "EHLO asav13.insightbb.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750855AbXFNFZ0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:25:26 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAApucEZKhRO4i2dsb2JhbACBTY15AhENBhI From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Alexandre Oliva Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:25:23 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Daniel Hazelton , Bongani Hlope , Linus Torvalds , Lennart Sorensen , Greg KH , debian developer , "david@lang.hm" , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu References: <200706132108.50030.dhazelton@enter.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706140125.24815.dtor@insightbb.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 980 Lines: 24 On Wednesday 13 June 2007 21:59, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > It *DOES* *NOT* say "All rights that you have". It says "All rights > > that are granted you by this license". > > I suggest you to reboot into memtest ;-) ?The preamble of GPLv2 says: > > ? For example, 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. > ? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ So if I am a sole author of a program and I chose to distribute it under GPL then all recepients will get _all_ my rights, including right to re-license the program under BSD or a proprietory license? Yeah, riiight... Thankfully it is just preamble and not the actual license text. -- Dmitry - 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/