Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765335AbXFRVoY (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:44:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755432AbXFRVoR (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:44:17 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:53291 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760715AbXFRVoQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:44:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:43:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Alexandre Oliva cc: Al Viro , Bernd Schmidt , Alan Cox , Ingo Molnar , Daniel Hazelton , 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 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070615101007.0cbfd078@the-village.bc.nu> <4673CA7C.5040207@t-online.de> <20070616181902.GB21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> 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: 1702 Lines: 40 On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > a) I don't personally feel like I have the "moral authority" to require > hardware designers to give access to their hardware to me. > > I can tell them that I *like* open hardware more than closed hardware, > but they designed the hardware, and as a result I think it's *their* > choice. > > In contrast, I _do_ think I have the moral authority to ask for > modifications to the _software_ back. Because they didn't design it, > they just improved on it. Btw, this may explain the differences between rms/FSF and me. Richard Stallman is out to "improve the world". He thinks he has not just the moral authority and right, but the _obligation_ to tell others how to live their lives. So rms feels he has to "spread his message", the same way those annoying people come to your door on Saturday in order to "save you". rms literally is saving you from a sin. Me, not so much. I'm not out to "improve the world". I'm not saving you from any sin. I just have this project I started, and I think that if you improve on the project, you should let me use your improvements. And I don't ask you use that license anywhere else. For your other projects, you should follow *their* licenses. I'm just asking you to honor my choice of license for those projects I started, and I designed, and where I conned other people into helping me under the same rules. Linus - 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/