Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755576AbXFOGeT (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:34:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752725AbXFOGeM (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:34:12 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]:12753 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752412AbXFOGeL (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:34:11 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=oo4pfq7/Q9RFc+gmXsqbNeTn9R8sc/hwOKK5QvhXHFe/M+wltKD0KapH6V6lUnIgdYCJEIxgofgDtK+LBDZOmg6021ChPAfxixlplIREwdht6TUa03FOvZsXFviWsX/pE9kl7fIN5ArDUrCEwJl1Zcsk975MRQZa+Jatj+XRHnw= Message-ID: <5d6222a80706142334m9f39383v20aff191f4501c50@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:34:09 -0300 From: "Glauber de Oliveira Costa" To: "Marc Perkel" Subject: Re: Instead of GPL License - Why not LKL? (Linux Kernel License) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070615062152.4369.qmail@web52502.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070615062152.4369.qmail@web52502.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1002 Lines: 27 On 6/15/07, Marc Perkel wrote: > I've been somewhat following the GPL2 vs. GPL3 debate > and the problem is that it leads to confusion. GPL3 is > nothing like GPL2 and the GPLx leads people to believe > that GPL3 is just GPL3 improved. > > So - just throwing out the idea that if Linus is > unhappy with GPL3 that Linux lose the GPLx license and > call it the Linux Kernel License or LKL for short. So > LKL could equal GPL2. It seems it would require agreement by all copyright holders, much like the v2->v3 transition would do. If it makes the 2->3 transition unfeasible, the same may apply here. -- Glauber de Oliveira Costa. "Free as in Freedom" http://glommer.net "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act." - 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/