Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756541AbXFNXgZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:36:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752703AbXFNXgR (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:36:17 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:49492 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751384AbXFNXgQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:36:16 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:39:19 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Carlo Wood Cc: Linus Torvalds , Alexandre Oliva , Adrian Bunk , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Daniel Hazelton , 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: <20070615003919.1abfb155@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070614231812.GA9463@alinoe.com> 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> <20070614231812.GA9463@alinoe.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1188 Lines: 29 > This is the main reason I dislike GPLwhatever: there is no notion > of "orginal author". You might have written 99% of the code, that Every literary work (including thus software) has an author, and that author has certain rights which are implicit in them being author. > doesn't matter. You have no rights whatsoever once you release > something under the GPL (no more than ANYOne else). Wrong. The author has a collection of rights which vary by jurisdiction but which are primarily governed by the Berne Convention and its sequels notably TRIPS. > 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 You must be using a different GPL to the rest of us. > GPLv3, then all he needs is a website and some bandwidth. And a very good lawyer (oh and a GPL3 as there isn't one yet...) Alan - 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/