Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757759AbXFOCsy (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:48:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752868AbXFOCsr (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:48:47 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:55109 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752050AbXFOCsq (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:48:46 -0400 To: Rob Landley 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> <200706142120.36902.rob@landley.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:46:48 -0300 In-Reply-To: <200706142120.36902.rob@landley.net> (Rob Landley's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 21\:20\:35 -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: 1548 Lines: 43 On Jun 14, 2007, Rob Landley wrote: > On Thursday 14 June 2007 19:20:19 Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> 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? Just because it has a higher version number. Honest, no other reason was implied. I'm seriously not trying to push v3 here. I got into this to try to dispell myths and get a better grasp of the situation. > Bumping a version number is not in indicator of quality, Agreed. Still, some people talk about upgrading from XP to Vista (ok, no numbers here, but you get the idea), just like they talk about upgrading from linux 2.4 to 2.6. > So far, you haven't brought up a single reason to use v3 Sure, that was not my goal. I wasn't even trying. Would you like me to? > You've just tried to argue that it isn't WORSE than the existing > license. Good, it's nice when people get the idea of what I'm trying to accomplish. I feared this had been lost in the noise. -- 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/