Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758934AbXFOXkr (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:40:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753437AbXFOXkj (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:40:39 -0400 Received: from server021.webpack.hosteurope.de ([80.237.130.29]:38230 "EHLO server021.webpack.hosteurope.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754169AbXFOXki (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:40:38 -0400 From: Michael Gerdau Organization: Technosis GmbH To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:39:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: Linus Torvalds , Daniel Hazelton , Alexandre Oliva , Lennart Sorensen , Greg KH , debian developer , "david@lang.hm" , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton References: <200706160006.26428.mgd@technosis.de> <20070615222229.GA20176@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20070615222229.GA20176@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4790886.KUfdW1PzXA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200706160140.24017.mgd@technosis.de> X-bounce-key: webpack.hosteurope.de;mgd@technosis.de;1181950838;49465f61; Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2008 Lines: 53 --nextPart4790886.KUfdW1PzXA Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline > > > What matters is *my* intent in *choosing* the GPLv2, not *his*=20 > > > intent in writing it. > >=20 > > I beg to differ. By adopting _his_ license you adopted his view. [...] >=20 > ianal, but fortunately that's not what the law is. The license says what= =20 > it says, and that is what controls. The intent of the author (of Linus=20 > and other copyright holders) is a secondary source of information /if=20 > and only if/ any ambiguity of meaning arises (as determined by a judge,=20 > not by you or me). But the opinion and intent of RMS (unless adopted by=20 > Linus) is quite immaterial. I agree with the "/if and only if/ any ambiguity of meaning arises" part. I'm sorry I didn't make that clear before. However if that situation arises (i.e. the judge decides there is an ambiguity) then as far as my experience tells me it is the intention of the author (RMS et al in this case) that counts. But I erred before... Best wishes, Michael =2D-=20 Technosis GmbH, Gesch=E4ftsf=FChrer: Michael Gerdau, Tobias Dittmar Sitz Hamburg; HRB 89145 Amtsgericht Hamburg Vote against SPAM - see http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Michael Gerdau email: mgd@technosis.de GPG-keys available on request or at public keyserver --nextPart4790886.KUfdW1PzXA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGcyNnUYYhyuxDQc4RAuFwAJ9N3Y6rbZdVcnRoP/Sz9GTgyLV0cACgphi5 hd5PUTkjziNUv0jfDK4Jy2Y= =wIKi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4790886.KUfdW1PzXA-- - 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/