Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758081AbXFNXrS (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:47:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754938AbXFNXrL (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:47:11 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:38848 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754942AbXFNXrK (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:47:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:45:08 -0400 From: Bill Nottingham To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: Florin Malita , Daniel Hazelton , Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , 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: <20070614234507.GA3860@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Alexandre Oliva , Florin Malita , Daniel Hazelton , Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , Alan Cox , Greg KH , debian developer , david@lang.hm, Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <200706140305.50095.dhazelton@enter.net> <46717C58.8050501@gmail.com> <4671A528.5040300@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 665 Lines: 18 Alexandre Oliva (aoliva@redhat.com) said: > And since the specific implementation involves creating a derived work > of the GPLed kernel (the signature, or the signed image, or what have > you) Wait, a signed filesystem image that happens to contain GPL code is now a derived work? Under what sort of interpretation does *that* occur? (This pretty much throws the 'aggregation' premise in GPLv2 completely out.) Bill - 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/