Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755678AbXFNTuv (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:50:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750859AbXFNTun (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:50:43 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:57602 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750961AbXFNTum (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:50:42 -0400 To: Greg KH Cc: Neshama Parhoti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <200706132304.21984.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070614112329.3645c397@the-village.bc.nu> <20070614103846.GA7902@elte.hu> <20070614182356.GA11828@kroah.com> <4f436aae0706141128y5cfc8e52nb52745dfe8820341@mail.gmail.com> <912ec82a0706141142v2a7db410x16f18df16da855c2@mail.gmail.com> <20070614190335.GA13261@kroah.com> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:50:34 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20070614190335.GA13261@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 12\:03\:35 -0700") 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: 957 Lines: 24 On Jun 14, 2007, Greg KH wrote: > The FSF required copyright assignment to themselves in order to accept > the changes from the developers. For many strategic projects, but not all of them. > So the FSF owns the whole copyright and can change things whenever > they want, to whatever license they want. This is not true. Have you ever read the copyright assignment contract? It very clearly constrains the ways the FSF can release the code. -- 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/