Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756658AbXFNW7Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:59:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752803AbXFNW7F (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:59:05 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:50429 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752449AbXFNW7C (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:59:02 -0400 To: Bongani Hlope Cc: Linus Torvalds , Diego Calleja , 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> <200706150031.18402.bonganilinux@mweb.co.za> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:57:05 -0300 In-Reply-To: <200706150031.18402.bonganilinux@mweb.co.za> (Bongani Hlope's message of "Fri\, 15 Jun 2007 00\:31\:17 +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: 1624 Lines: 32 On Jun 14, 2007, Bongani Hlope wrote: > On Thursday 14 June 2007 21:55:09 Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Jun 14, 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Diego Calleja wrote: >> >> And the FSF is trying to control the design and licensing of >> >> hardware throught the influence of their software. >> >> It's not. It's only working to ensure recipients of the Free Software >> can modify and share the software. > ^^^^^ > Exactly what has been said to you the whole time, but you still refuse to > accept that. If Linus develops and runs his code on a PowerPC and I struggle > to install the code that he has released for me to modify and share on a > PowerPC (maybe because I'm an idiot). Should I create a license with a > Linusation term, because he is evil he runs his code on a PowerPC and I > can't? Depends. In this hypothetical scenario, what did he do to stop you from installing and running the modified version (or even the pristine version, merely recompiled) in your PowerPC? And why did he do 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/