Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758757AbXFODsw (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:48:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754326AbXFODsp (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:48:45 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:38717 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753640AbXFODso (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:48:44 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Michael Poole , Daniel Hazelton , Lennart Sorensen , 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: <200706142049.41819.dhazelton@enter.net> <87fy4u0xty.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> <200706142246.57583.dhazelton@enter.net> <878xal2a0q.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:48:22 -0300 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 20\:22\:36 -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: 1462 Lines: 36 On Jun 15, 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Michael Poole wrote: >> >> If the DRM signature and program executable are coupled such that they >> are not useful when separated, the implication to me is that they form >> one work that is based on the original Program. This is beyond the >> GPL's permission for "mere aggregation". > So you want to make things like a 160-bit SHA1 hash of a binary be a > "derived work" of that software? How about the combination of the software binary with the hash? Considering that the hash is a functional part of the software, as in, if you take that out, it no longer works? > If that were to seriously be an FSF argument, Remember: I don't speak for the FSF, and I don't speak for FSFLA, just like I don't speak for Red Hat. Just like you shouldn't redirect your qualms with the FSF to me, you shouldn't direct your qualms with me to the FSF. That would be very wrong. -- 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/