Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754649AbXFOSA0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:00:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751291AbXFOSAP (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:00:15 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:45217 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750932AbXFOSAN (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:00:13 -0400 From: Rob Landley Organization: Boundaries Unlimited To: Bernd Paysan Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:00:14 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Carlo Wood , Linus Torvalds , Alexandre Oliva , 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: <20070614020827.GO3588@stusta.de> <200706142149.19883.rob@landley.net> <200706151357.17418.bernd.paysan@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <200706151357.17418.bernd.paysan@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706151400.15522.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1559 Lines: 36 On Friday 15 June 2007 07:57:10 Bernd Paysan wrote: > On Friday 15 June 2007 03:49, Rob Landley wrote: > > (Right now, nobody EXCEPT the FSF has the right to sue somebody to > > enforce the license terms on something like gcc. Do you find that a > > comforting thought?) > > Have you ever signed a copyright transfer agreement to the FSF? Nope, and I probably never will, but I'm glad to be wrong about this one. > But let's assume Microsoft really succeeds with > its patent FUD against Linux, and the only way out is GPLv3, when will > opinions here change? Ever heard of the Open Invention Network or the Software Freedom Law Center? And since when did the FSF become an ally of Microsoft? The rest of us seem to think the Novell deal's a minefield under GPLv2, and would just LOVE Microsoft to reopen the antitrust can of worms by suing somebody over Linux (they're still a convicted predatory monopolist, only the sentence part was defused)... And yet GPLv3 was DOA until the Novell deal happened and suddenly the FSF had this huge thing. Reminds me of everybody rallying behind Bush after September 11 to support abominations like the Patriot Act. It's sad how fear makes people stop thinking. Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - 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/