Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753494AbXFOKTR (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:19:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751371AbXFOKTI (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:19:08 -0400 Received: from s2.ukfsn.org ([217.158.120.143]:39113 "EHLO mail.ukfsn.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750724AbXFOKTG (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:19:06 -0400 Message-ID: <46726793.1020206@dgreaves.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:18:59 +0100 From: David Greaves User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070601) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Hazelton Cc: Michael Gerdau , Alexandre Oliva , Linus Torvalds , 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> <200706150825.15491.mgd@technosis.de> <200706150520.15086.dhazelton@enter.net> In-Reply-To: <200706150520.15086.dhazelton@enter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1211 Lines: 32 Daniel Hazelton wrote: >> Now for a different PoV: >> Do I think Tivoisation is bad for the community ? >> Of course I think it is but your mileage may vary. > > And I happen to agree with you. What I disagree with is taking steps to > make "bad == illegal". I also have a problem with doing things that force my > viewpoint on other people. Surely it's more: bad == go away and don't use future improvements to our software anymore please. ?? *If* you think it's bad (Linus doesn't as far as the kernel goes) then isn't it reasonable to exclude 'bad for the community' from the community? This isn't retroactive - they can continue to use any V2 software they had, they wouldn't be able to use V3 developments. That seems to me to be a very, very reasonable thing to do (and very much *not* bad == illegal IMHO) David PS well, I was just seeing if anyone had fixed my libata/md bug yet but this seemed more interesting. PPS and Tejun has, I'm off... - 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/