Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758601AbXFNXS1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:18:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755914AbXFNXSR (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:18:17 -0400 Received: from viefep18-int.chello.at ([213.46.255.22]:3270 "EHLO viefep18-int.chello.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755820AbXFNXSP (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:18:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:18:12 +0200 From: Carlo Wood To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alexandre Oliva , 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 Message-ID: <20070614231812.GA9463@alinoe.com> Mail-Followup-To: Carlo Wood , Linus Torvalds , Alexandre Oliva , 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 References: <20070614020827.GO3588@stusta.de> <200706132243.14651.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070614025640.GQ3588@stusta.de> <9578.1181793617@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20070614152034.GS3588@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1043 Lines: 23 On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:09:46PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I'm the original author, and I selected the GPLv2 for Linux. [...] > I'm not going to bother discussing this any more. You don't seem to > respect my right to choose the license for my own code. This is the main reason I dislike GPLwhatever: there is no notion of "orginal author". You might have written 99% of the code, that doesn't matter. You have no rights whatsoever once you release something under the GPL (no more than ANYOne else). The GPL is nice for the community, and for the users - but very, very bad towards it's authors (taking all and every right you might have). If John Doe wants to re-release the whole kernel under GPLv3, then all he needs is a website and some bandwidth. -- Carlo Wood - 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/