Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753466AbXFNU5T (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:57:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750861AbXFNU5J (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:57:09 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:57237 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750731AbXFNU5F (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:57:05 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Adrian Bunk , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Daniel Hazelton , 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> <200706132140.13490.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070614020827.GO3588@stusta.de> <200706132243.14651.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070614025640.GQ3588@stusta.de> <9578.1181793617@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20070614152034.GS3588@stusta.de> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:54:10 -0300 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 13\:09\:46 -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: 1117 Lines: 26 On Jun 14, 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > - I chose the GPLv2, fully understanding that the Tivo kind of > situation is ok. Wow, do you remember the date when you first thought of this business model? > And you are apparently totally unable to understand - or respect - that I > actually made an informed decision that happens to be different from what > you *wish* it were. While you insist in the nonsensical tit-for-tat argument and "in kind" retributions, I don't think I have much of a choice, because this is not what the GPL is about, this is not what it requires of licensees. -- 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/