Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757591AbXFOV0e (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:26:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753313AbXFOV0Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:26:24 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:40984 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757261AbXFOV0X (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:26:23 -0400 To: Daniel Hazelton Cc: "Nicolas Mailhot" , "Jesper Juhl" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <9a8748490706150353i452cf529oc5c0e8119f91e64e@mail.gmail.com> <52052.192.54.193.51.1181907121.squirrel@rousalka.dyndns.org> <200706151546.52113.dhazelton@enter.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:26:06 -0300 In-Reply-To: <200706151546.52113.dhazelton@enter.net> (Daniel Hazelton's message of "Fri\, 15 Jun 2007 15\:46\: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: 1223 Lines: 28 On Jun 15, 2007, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > And it doesn't *MATTER* what they intended, or what they feel the "spirit" of > the license is. The second they made it public and gave people the option of > applying the GPL to their projects their intent lost all meaning - because > the intent of all the people that decided to release their projects under the > GPL also has to be taken into account. +1 But at least my participation in this thread was to show that GPLv3 does not indeed change the spirit, unlike others who missed or misunderstood the spirit claimed. It is fair to claim that GPLv3 does not represent their intentions. It is not fair to claim that GPLv3 changes the spirit of the GPL. -- 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/