Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754844AbXFNRi3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:38:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751063AbXFNRiW (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:38:22 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:35203 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750915AbXFNRiV (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:38:21 -0400 To: "Alan Milnes" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <20070614112329.3645c397@the-village.bc.nu> <20070614103846.GA7902@elte.hu> <200706141328.00798.bernd.paysan@gmx.de> <20070614132457.GB29423@elte.hu> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:38:08 -0300 In-Reply-To: (Alan Milnes's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 16\:08\:31 +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: 1057 Lines: 26 On Jun 14, 2007, "Alan Milnes" wrote: > Agreed - if you want to take my work you are welcome as long as you > contribute back your changes. That's the deal that GPL2 enforces and > why it has been so successful. Where did you get this impression that GPLv2 enforces this deal? It doesn't, and this is *exactly* why I dispute the claim that GPLv2 is tit-for-tat. > GPL3 is a very different beast with a much wider agenda, The agenda is *precisely* the same: ensure that all users are free to modify and share the licensed software. -- 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/