Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759475AbXFOXOS (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:14:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757124AbXFOXOF (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:14:05 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:38739 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756660AbXFOXOC (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:14:02 -0400 To: Chris Adams Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <20070615215334.GA1347791@hiwaay.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:13:54 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20070615215334.GA1347791@hiwaay.net> (Chris Adams's message of "Fri\, 15 Jun 2007 16\:53\:34 -0500") 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: 963 Lines: 23 On Jun 15, 2007, Chris Adams wrote: > Obviously Linus feels that the spirit of the GPLv2 is exactly what > he wanted spirit != letter. He liked the letter. He couldn't even tell spirit from letter 2 or 3 days ago. The spirit is the motivations behind the author of the license. Anyone who thinks the motivations of RMS and the FSF are not defending users' freedoms, as defined in the Free Software Definition, hasn't been around for very long. -- 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/