Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757999AbXFOTuk (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:50:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754960AbXFOTua (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:50:30 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:39663 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755198AbXFOTu2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:50:28 -0400 To: Daniel Hazelton Cc: Florin Malita , 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> <4671F127.40000@gmail.com> <200706150157.13631.dhazelton@enter.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:49:00 -0300 In-Reply-To: <200706150157.13631.dhazelton@enter.net> (Daniel Hazelton's message of "Fri\, 15 Jun 2007 01\:57\:13 -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: 1898 Lines: 41 On Jun 15, 2007, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > On Thursday 14 June 2007 23:19:24 Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> IANAL, but AFAICT it doesn't. Still, encoded in the spirit (that >> refers to free software, bringing in the free software definition), is >> the notion of protecting users' freedoms, among them the freeom #0, to >> run the software for any purpose. > And where in GPLv2 is "Freedom #0"? It may sound like thin evidence for someone arriving from Venus today, but the preamble talks about "free software", some passages clearly imply that software under this license is "free software", the license is published by the Free Software Foundation, and the Free Software Foundation has a published definition of Free Software that establishes the 4 freedoms. The freedoms defined there resonate very strongly with the freedoms/rights that the license talks about. I hope this is enough evidence to convince you that this is the intent. The only of the freedoms that's not explicitly mentioned in the preamble, the freedom to run the software for any purpose, is mentioned in the legal terms as unrestricted, which is very much in line with freedom #0, but is outside the scope of a copyright license because running the program does not require copyright permission. I'll give you that the preamble doesn't make it clear that the license is purported to defend freedom #0 too. -- 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/