Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755991AbXFOBwj (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:52:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751998AbXFOBwc (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:52:32 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:41791 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751662AbXFOBwc (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:52:32 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Daniel Hazelton , Chris Friesen , Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Greg KH , debian developer , david@lang.hm, Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <46718044.1040108@nortel.com> <200706141848.55378.dhazelton@enter.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:51:39 -0300 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 16\:31\:18 -0700 \(PDT\)") 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: 1377 Lines: 37 On Jun 14, 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > It's an addiction. I'm not proud. I guess this makes it two of us :-( > They were basically forced to add lockdown by the content vendors. They can do that. They will still be able to do that with v3. All they have to do is to throw away the keys that enable themselves to modify the code further. > For example, I'd rather have some GPLv2'd DVD player software that does > *not* come with a de-css key libdvdread and libdvdcss are separate packages. > So the GPLv3 actually _hinders_ people who might otherwise help the > community from helping, by making the license so strict that those people > (who are nice people, but have their options limited by stupid laws and > regulations) cannot use the GPLv3. Just like v2 hinders their many customers. Are you so sure v2 is better in this regard? -- 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/