Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759444AbXFPBnr (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:43:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757716AbXFPBnl (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:43:41 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:38976 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757678AbXFPBnk (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:43:40 -0400 To: Rob Landley 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 Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <200706150316.56556.rob@landley.net> <200706152112.04218.rob@landley.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:42:15 -0300 In-Reply-To: <200706152112.04218.rob@landley.net> (Rob Landley's message of "Fri\, 15 Jun 2007 21\:12\:03 -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: 1323 Lines: 34 On Jun 15, 2007, Rob Landley wrote: > 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? The one that speaks English, not Legalese. IANAL. Last I looked it up, "derived" was a plain-English word. -- 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/