Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755795AbXFNVDw (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:03:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751293AbXFNVDo (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:03:44 -0400 Received: from mail1.webmaster.com ([216.152.64.169]:4226 "EHLO mail1.webmaster.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752021AbXFNVDn (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:03:43 -0400 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Dave Neuer" , "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: RE: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:03:30 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <161717d50706141324y303f3d89n54447b7cb387979c@mail.gmail.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Authenticated-Sender: joelkatz@webmaster.com X-Spam-Processed: mail1.webmaster.com, Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:03:50 -0700 (not processed: message from trusted or authenticated source) X-MDRemoteIP: 206.171.168.138 X-Return-Path: davids@webmaster.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: davids@webmaster.com X-MDAV-Processed: mail1.webmaster.com, Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:03:51 -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1635 Lines: 35 > Oh, come on: you're not serious, right? Something indeed prevents me > -- the fact that I'm not a hardware manufacturer, I don't have fabs, > outsource vendors to provide me w/ designs, ASICs, etc. Nor to I have > the money to pay one-off prices for various components if they're even > available in batches that small. > > This argument seems totally disingenuous to me. The GPLv<3 was written > in a time when the majority of sotware to which the license was > applied was written for general purpose computers. The "user" was the > owner of the computer, and Freedom 0 was about letting that user RUN > modified copies of the software. And what about people who can't modify the Linux kernel? They don't know C. They don't know how to use a shell. They're not familiar with UNIX operating systems at all. Maybe they aren't smart enough to modify kernel code. The GPL is about having the legal right to modify the software and being able to put other people's distributed improvements back into the original code base. It does not guarantee that you will actually be able to modify the software and get it to work on some particular hardware. I certainly understood the GPL as ensuring the right to get the source code so that you could do something else with it. I never understood the GPL to be about getting hardware to do something else just because it ran GPL'd software. DS - 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/