Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757471AbXFNXyE (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:54:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751954AbXFNXxy (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:53:54 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:43112 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751635AbXFNXxx (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:53:53 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:56:59 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Bill Nottingham Cc: Alexandre Oliva , Florin Malita , Daniel Hazelton , Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , 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: <20070615005659.443fdbf5@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070614234507.GA3860@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <200706140305.50095.dhazelton@enter.net> <46717C58.8050501@gmail.com> <4671A528.5040300@gmail.com> <20070614234507.GA3860@nostromo.devel.redhat.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: 991 Lines: 26 On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:45:08 -0400 Bill Nottingham wrote: > 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.) Perhaps the FSF will in future remember to pack a copy of the GPL in each of its md5sum files on the mirror if this is a derivative work, and modify the bittorrent protocol to include a copy of the GPL in the seed files 8) 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/