Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753659AbXFOFZV (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:25:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751588AbXFOFZK (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:25:10 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:46831 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751852AbXFOFZI (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:25:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:24:32 -0400 From: Theodore Tso To: Alexandre Oliva 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 Message-ID: <20070615052432.GC14911@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Tso , Alexandre Oliva , 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 References:

MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1175 Lines: 24 On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:20:19PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > So, you see, your statement above, about wanting to be able to use > other people's improvements, cannot be taken without qualification. No. Linus and other Linux kernels might *want* to take other people's improvements, but thanks to Richard Stallman's choices for GPLv3, they can *not* legally take other people's improvements without violating the GPLv3 license. That's not their fault, it's the fault of people who wrote the GPLv3 license, promulgated the GPLv3 license, and who is attempting to convince everyone that the GPLv3 license is the only valid license for Right Thinking FSF automatons to use. There are plenty of things that I might *want* to do, that I am legally prohibited from doing. that doesn't change the fact that I might want to do it. The fact that GPLv3 is incompatible with GPLv2 is a tragedy, in the Greek sense. - Ted - 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/