Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758639AbXFPBMO (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:12:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751914AbXFPBL7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:11:59 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:39650 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751514AbXFPBL7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:11:59 -0400 From: Rob Landley Organization: Boundaries Unlimited To: Alexandre Oliva Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:12:03 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Florin Malita , Daniel Hazelton , Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , Alan Cox , Greg KH , debian developer , david@lang.hm, Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <200706150316.56556.rob@landley.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706152112.04218.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1213 Lines: 34 On Friday 15 June 2007 15:28:29 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 15, 2007, Rob Landley wrote: > > On Thursday 14 June 2007 22:25:57 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> Is the signature not derived from the bits in the GPLed component, as > >> much as it is derived from the key? > > > > Actually, you can't copyright, trademark, or patent a number. > > Agreed. And this counter-argument of yours is a distraction. > > I was careful to not talk about "derived work". "Is the signature not derived from X as much as it is derived from Y." "I was careful to not talk about "derived work"." Which personality of yours am I currently addressing? > Please read it again > under this clarification (that I'm pretty sure I'd already made > before, but it's getting hard to keep track of everything in this > thread ;-) I'm going to stop feeding the troll now... Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - 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/