Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756387AbXFNWgi (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:36:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751677AbXFNWga (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:36:30 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:43006 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751570AbXFNWg3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:36:29 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Sean , 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> <20070614131409.9a5800dc.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:35:01 -0300 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 14\:27\:21 -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: 1478 Lines: 33 On Jun 14, 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I want to be able to use other peoples improvements. If they release > improved versions of the software I started, I want to be able to merge > those improvements if I want to. Hmm... So, if someone takes one of the many GPLv2+ contributions and makes improvements under GPLv3+, you're going to make an effort to accept them, rather than rejecting them because they're under the GPLv3? > Your *IDIOTIC* suggestion is explicitly against the whole POINT! By saying > that I shouldn't accept contributions like that, you just INVALIDATED the > whole point of the license in the first place! I understand. I assumed you had some trust that people would abide by your wish to permit TiVOization, and that authors of modifications were entitled to make "whatever restrictions they wanted" on their code. Pardon me if I think your position is at least somewhat incoherent. Can you help me make sense of it? -- 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/