Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755004AbXFOCcr (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:32:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751342AbXFOCcj (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:32:39 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:51185 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751064AbXFOCci (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:32:38 -0400 To: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard 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 Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <200706132140.13490.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070614020827.GO3588@stusta.de> <200706132243.14651.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070614025640.GQ3588@stusta.de> <9578.1181793617@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20070614152034.GS3588@stusta.de> <20070614131409.9a5800dc.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> <87r6oeytin.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:31:13 -0300 In-Reply-To: <87r6oeytin.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> (Jeremy Maitin-Shepard's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 20\:02\:24 -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: 1388 Lines: 33 On Jun 14, 2007, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > Alexandre Oliva writes: >> On Jun 14, 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >>>> >>>> Hmm... So, if someone takes one of the many GPLv2+ contributions and >>>> makes improvements under GPLv3+, you're going to make an effort to >>>> accept them, rather than rejecting them because they're under the >>>> GPLv3? >>> You *cannot* make GPLv3-only contributions to the kernel. >> I can make improvements to GPLv2+ files under GPLv3 (or rather will, >> after GPLv3 is published). > You can do that, but you won't be able to distribute those changes along > with the rest of the kernel. I know. Neither will Linus. But he says he chose GPLv2 such that he could, and the v2 is better than v3 in this regard. What's wrong with this picture? -- 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/