Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759334AbXFQUus (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:50:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751578AbXFQUuk (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:50:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:47058 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751837AbXFQUuj (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:50:39 -0400 To: Al Boldi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <200706172319.22381.a1426z@gawab.com> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:50:32 -0300 In-Reply-To: <200706172319.22381.a1426z@gawab.com> (Al Boldi's message of "Sun\, 17 Jun 2007 23\:19\:22 +0300") 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: 795 Lines: 21 On Jun 17, 2007, Al Boldi wrote: > Under what circumstances would it be possible to receive permission for > modification? You have to ask the copyright holder. Affero did just that, and so the Affero GPL was born. Just don't assume the FSF will grant such permissions lightly. -- 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/