Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932179AbXFSCdc (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:33:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759895AbXFSCdZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:33:25 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:55412 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757940AbXFSCdY (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:33:24 -0400 To: david@lang.hm Cc: Johannes Stezenbach , Linus Torvalds , Al Viro , Bernd Schmidt , Alan Cox , Ingo Molnar , Daniel Hazelton , Greg KH , debian developer , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <4673CA7C.5040207@t-online.de> <20070616181902.GB21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20070618155016.GA31892@linuxtv.org> <20070618232549.GA22170@linuxtv.org> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:32:15 -0300 In-Reply-To: (david@lang.hm's message of "Mon\, 18 Jun 2007 16\:39\:20 -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: 1288 Lines: 28 On Jun 18, 2007, david@lang.hm wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: >>> But since the software is good, and moving to another software >>> would be costly in various dimentions, the vendor has an incentive >>> to stick with the software they have. > but if regulations or other contracts require tamper-resistant > hardware they have no choices other then to fork the existing GPLv2 > versions or switch to alternate options for anything that switches to > GPLv3 Where by "alternate options" I hope you mean non-copyleft or tivoizable (copyleft by definition) software, or (newer versions of) the same software they already use, but in ROM. (I point this out because people keep forgetting all the available options when they claim to enumerate all available options ;-) -- 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/