Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751971AbXFORMF (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:12:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750970AbXFORLz (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:11:55 -0400 Received: from mx.laposte.net ([81.255.54.16]:54811 "EHLO mx.laposte.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750901AbXFORLz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:11:55 -0400 Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 From: Nicolas Mailhot To: Florin Malita Cc: Jesper Juhl , Nicolas Mailhot , Daniel Hazelton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4672BBD8.1010403@gmail.com> References: <9a8748490706150353i452cf529oc5c0e8119f91e64e@mail.gmail.com> <52052.192.54.193.51.1181907121.squirrel@rousalka.dyndns.org> <9a8748490706150641s4669c7ffrb64e1f0b92e5c931@mail.gmail.com> <42772.192.54.193.51.1181918039.squirrel@rousalka.dyndns.org> <4672BBD8.1010403@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Organization: Adresse perso Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:11:28 +0200 Message-Id: <1181927488.4388.4.camel@rousalka.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.11.3 (2.11.3-4.fc8) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1299 Lines: 31 Le vendredi 15 juin 2007 à 12:18 -0400, Florin Malita a écrit : > On 06/15/2007 10:33 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le Ven 15 juin 2007 15:41, Jesper Juhl a écrit : > > > >> But the only thing that *actually* matters is what the license text > >> *says*. It doesn't matter what the authors of the license text > >> intended > >> > > > > Judges would disagree there > > > > I very much doubt that, read Jesper's phrase carefully: what may matter > is the intent of the *copyrighted work's* author, not the intent of the > *license* author. The intent of the latter is (well, should be) > completely irrelevant to the case. You're right though I suspect even in the case where the copyrighted work author and the licensing author are not the same, a judge will listen to the licensing author if licensor and licensee disagree on a point (the licensing author being a neutral third-party that presumably knows what's in the licence it wrote). Though in this case license author is nothing more than an expert witness -- Nicolas Mailhot - 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/