Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760603AbXFRAZT (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:25:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754943AbXFRAZH (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:25:07 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:59379 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754274AbXFRAZF (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:25:05 -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> <200706180108.22065.a1426z@gawab.com> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:24:55 -0300 In-Reply-To: <200706180108.22065.a1426z@gawab.com> (Al Boldi's message of "Mon\, 18 Jun 2007 01\:08\:21 +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: 1359 Lines: 34 On Jun 17, 2007, Al Boldi wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> 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. > But wouldn't this be against the spirit of the GPL? I'm not sure what you mean. The moment you modified it, it would no longer be the GPL and, as long as it's not the FSF publishing it as later version of the GPL, it wouldn't be bound by the public commitment that all versions of the GPL would have the same spirit, and as long as it's not the FSF publishing it, it wouldn't be bound by the FSF's public mission and the copyright assignments it received. -- 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/