Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754881AbXFOBfq (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:35:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751338AbXFOBfi (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:35:38 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:37511 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751064AbXFOBfi (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:35:38 -0400 To: Rob Landley Cc: Bernd Paysan , "Alan Milnes" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <200706141744.08408.bernd.paysan@gmx.de> <200706141917.58824.rob@landley.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:35:16 -0300 In-Reply-To: <200706141917.58824.rob@landley.net> (Rob Landley's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 19\:17\:58 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1656 Lines: 37 On Jun 14, 2007, Rob Landley wrote: > Now the FSF is coming along and being Darth Vader: "I am altering > the bargain. Pray I don't alter it any further." 1) it can't possibly do that. the Linux license is something that only the Linux developers can decide. 2) I don't know how the FSF is approaching the Linux developers, but what I've been personally trying to do in this infinite thread was mainly to set the record straight that v3 did not change the spirit of the license, like some have claimed. 3) Another thing I've tried to do was to try to figure out why Linux developers seem to consider v2 better than v3 for their own goals. I must admit I failed. The presented reasons don't seem to distinguish v2 from v3 to me, or rather make v3 sound better. It's disappointing that I took so much of everyone's time without achieving any of my goals. I hope it was at least useful or enlightening to some. I'll now try to step out of the discussion, but I guess I'm just as addicted to flames. I don't see that it's getting anywhere, and I don't particularly enjoy the name calling. And then, I was politely invited to go away... -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} - 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/