Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753086AbXFOBUo (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:20:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751097AbXFOBUg (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:20:36 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:36048 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751016AbXFOBUf (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:20:35 -0400 From: Rob Landley Organization: Boundaries Unlimited To: Alexandre Oliva Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:20:35 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Linus Torvalds , Sean , 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: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706142120.36902.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1320 Lines: 28 On Thursday 14 June 2007 19:20:19 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > But not within the confines of the Linux kernel. Within the Linux kernel, > > the GPLv2 rules - and "GPLv2+" becomes just "GPLv2", since the GPLv3 is > > not compatible with v2. > > I understand this very well. You'd have to get the kernel upgraded to > GPLv3 in order to accept the contribution. Why do you keep saying "upgraded" to GPLv3? How is it an improvement to move from a small, simple, elegant, and tested implementation to something that's more complicated, less elegant, less coherent, totally untested, and full of numerous special cases? Bumping a version number is not in indicator of quality, and spending over twice as much text to express the same legal principles is not an improvement. So far, you haven't brought up a single reason to use v3 except for a higher version number. (Not that I'm asking you to.) You've just tried to argue that it isn't WORSE than the existing license. Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - 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/