Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755326AbXFOTa1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:30:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751857AbXFOTaR (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:30:17 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33759 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751291AbXFOTaO (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:30:14 -0400 To: Rob Landley Cc: Florin Malita , Daniel Hazelton , Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , 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 References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <20070614234507.GA3860@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <200706150316.56556.rob@landley.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:28:29 -0300 In-Reply-To: <200706150316.56556.rob@landley.net> (Rob Landley's message of "Fri\, 15 Jun 2007 03\:16\:52 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1499 Lines: 35 On Jun 15, 2007, Rob Landley wrote: > On Thursday 14 June 2007 22:25:57 Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Jun 14, 2007, Bill Nottingham wrote: >> > Alexandre Oliva (aoliva@redhat.com) said: >> >> And since the specific implementation involves creating a derived work >> >> of the GPLed kernel (the signature, or the signed image, or what have >> >> you) >> > >> > Wait, a signed filesystem image that happens to contain GPL code >> > is now a derived work? Under what sort of interpretation does *that* >> > occur? >> >> Is the signature not derived from the bits in the GPLed component, as >> much as it is derived from the key? > Actually, you can't copyright, trademark, or patent a number. Agreed. And this counter-argument of yours is a distraction. I was careful to not talk about "derived work". Please read it again under this clarification (that I'm pretty sure I'd already made before, but it's getting hard to keep track of everything in this thread ;-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} - 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/