Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756532AbXFOVKi (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:10:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751631AbXFOVK1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:10:27 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:36134 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751438AbXFOVK0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:10:26 -0400 To: Theodore Tso Cc: Linus Torvalds , Sean , 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 Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <20070615052432.GC14911@thunk.org> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:44:40 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20070615052432.GC14911@thunk.org> (Theodore Tso's message of "Fri\, 15 Jun 2007 01\:24\:32 -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: 1244 Lines: 29 On Jun 15, 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:20:19PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> >> So, you see, your statement above, about wanting to be able to use >> other people's improvements, cannot be taken without qualification. > No. Linus and other Linux kernels might *want* to take other people's > improvements, but thanks to Richard Stallman's choices for GPLv3, they > can *not* legally take other people's improvements without violating > the GPLv3 license. This argument is backwards. It's because of Linus' choice for GPLv2 that he can't take improvements under the GPLv3. Had he chosen any other GPLv3-compatible license, he could. And the same applies to any other incompatible pair of licenses. -- 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/