Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758404AbXFPFqq (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:46:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752601AbXFPFqk (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:46:40 -0400 Received: from server021.webpack.hosteurope.de ([80.237.130.29]:37742 "EHLO server021.webpack.hosteurope.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751988AbXFPFqj (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:46:39 -0400 From: Michael Gerdau Organization: Technosis GmbH To: Rob Landley Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:46:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Daniel Hazelton , Alexandre Oliva , Lennart Sorensen , Greg KH , debian developer , "david@lang.hm" , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton References: <200706152157.15444.rob@landley.net> In-Reply-To: <200706152157.15444.rob@landley.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1316051.1DGFV4o52l"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200706160746.23597.mgd@technosis.de> X-bounce-key: webpack.hosteurope.de;mgd@technosis.de;1181972798;db54cb8a; Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1886 Lines: 54 --nextPart1316051.1DGFV4o52l Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline > On Friday 15 June 2007 18:59:14 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So it's true: the GPL just gives you rights, and without it you have no > > rights (other than fair use ones etc), and blah blah. But the distincti= on > > between "license" vs "contract" really isn't a very important one in any > > case. >=20 > Er, copyright law is federal, contract law is generally state level? So = not=20 > only does contract law vary a lot more by jurisdiction, but it's enforced= by=20 > different courts than suits over copyright? (You'll notice the GPL doesn= 't=20 > say which state law holds sway. If it was a contract this would be kind = of=20 > important.) That seems to be a special property of the US legal system. At least I'm not aware of this or a similar distinction in e.g. germany (or most parts of europe AFAIK). Best, 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 --nextPart1316051.1DGFV4o52l 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) iD8DBQBGc3kvUYYhyuxDQc4RAl/QAJwIG7FOsogtfKPRaDbiog2bdjCgngCfebBD hS6dyv6AnSajZkBft6ONIbU= =KgPf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1316051.1DGFV4o52l-- - 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/