Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759561AbXFQFo2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:44:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755076AbXFQFoV (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:44:21 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:46316 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755005AbXFQFoU (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:44:20 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Daniel Hazelton , Bron Gondwana , Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Greg KH , debian developer , david@lang.hm, Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <200706161817.36657.dhazelton@enter.net> <200706162306.14516.dhazelton@enter.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:43:48 -0300 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sat\, 16 Jun 2007 21\:27\:23 -0700 \(PDT\)") 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: 1530 Lines: 36 On Jun 17, 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> >> They're based on the Free Software definition, that establishes the >> four freedoms that the GPL was designed to respect and defend. > The GPL is a software license, *independent* of that thing. One more time, I'm not talking about the license (the legal terms). I'm talking about its spirit. It's encoded in the preamble, that refers to "free software", which can't possibly be defended as meaning anything but what the FSF itself defined in the Free Software Definition. Is this some form of mental block that stops you from realizing that the spirit of the license is pretty much all I've been talking about here, and that I've already said that at least 20 times in this thread? Why do you insist in bringing the legal terms back into this discussion about the spirit of the license? What are you trying to accomplish, other than generating more confusion and pretending that you have a strong point? -- 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/