Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759246AbXFOUjx (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:39:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758465AbXFOUjo (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:39:44 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:55153 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758410AbXFOUjn (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:39:43 -0400 To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Michael Poole , Daniel Hazelton , Linus Torvalds , Lennart Sorensen , Greg KH , debian developer , "david\@lang.hm" , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <200706142246.57583.dhazelton@enter.net> <878xal2a0q.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> <200706150127.18069.dhazelton@enter.net> <87sl8tzaj1.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> <20070615124039.GB21120@elte.hu> <87fy4tz8dc.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> <20070615143003.GA8775@elte.hu> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:38:47 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20070615143003.GA8775@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Fri\, 15 Jun 2007 16\:30\:03 +0200") 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: 1210 Lines: 28 On Jun 15, 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > that's exactly what the GPLv3 does: it creatively defines the > hardware's key into the 'source code' of the software and then asks > for that to be provided _not_ because somehow the key derives from > the software Dude, you're 3 drafts behind. And some people already read GPLv2 like that. > (it clearly does not), but as a "compensation" for the right to > redistribute! I.e. it's trying to extend its scope to some item that > is not part of the software. See? The "compensation" is and has always been "respecting others' freedoms". If the key is used to disrespect others freedoms, as it is by TiVO, then TiVO is failing to keep its part in the deal. -- 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/