Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761615AbXFQU2c (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:28:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760671AbXFQU2Z (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:28:25 -0400 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:60008 "EHLO ns.firmix.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756403AbXFQU2Y (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:28:24 -0400 Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: Gabor Czigola , lkml In-Reply-To: References: <3a0f49600706171014m6bc9af34s9dda0ea282a4d63@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: http://www.firmix.at/ Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:28:17 +0200 Message-Id: <1182112097.3800.3.camel@gimli.at.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Firmix-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on ns.firmix.at X-Firmix-Spam-Score: -1.118 () AWL X-Firmix-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.118 required=5 X-Spam-Score: -1.118 () AWL X-Firmix-Envelope-From: X-Firmix-Envelope-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1263 Lines: 28 On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 15:55 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 17, 2007, "Gabor Czigola" wrote: > > > I wonder why the linux kernel development community couldn't propose > > an own GPL draft (say v2.2) that is "as free as v2" and that includes > > some ideas (from v3) that are considered as good (free, innovative, in > > the spirit of whatever etc.) by the majority of the kernel developers. > > For one, because the text of the GPL is copyrighted by the FSF, and > licensed without permission for modification. And that's as it should > be, you don't want others to modify the terms of the license you chose > for your code, do you? That's probably precisely the reason for removing the "or later" so that others (even if it's "only" the FSF) can't modify the terms of the license chosen for the code. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services - 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/