Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753941AbXFNGIm (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:08:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751477AbXFNGIe (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:08:34 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:44649 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751360AbXFNGId (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:08:33 -0400 To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Alan Cox , Daniel Hazelton , 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: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <200706131946.15714.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070614004419.GL3588@stusta.de> <200706132101.28330.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070614024540.3a24598c@the-village.bc.nu> <20070614021724.GP3588@stusta.de> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:07:17 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20070614021724.GP3588@stusta.de> (Adrian Bunk's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 04\:17\:24 +0200") 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: 980 Lines: 22 On Jun 13, 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > If the two courts are in the same country there's usually a higher court > above both that can resolve this. But what if let's say the highest > court in the USA and the highest court in Germany would disagree on such > a matter? Upgrade the license so as to provide guidance as to the intent of the authors, such that the disagreement doesn't happen again. If there's room in each country's laws to fix the problem, that is. -- 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/