Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765427AbXFSCjj (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:39:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760525AbXFSCjc (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:39:32 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:57009 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759895AbXFSCjb (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:39:31 -0400 To: david@lang.hm Cc: Joshua David Williams , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPLv3 dispute solution - new open source license? References: <200706181807.53306.yurimxpxman@gmail.com> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:39:23 -0300 In-Reply-To: (david@lang.hm's message of "Mon\, 18 Jun 2007 15\:43\:02 -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: 1363 Lines: 39 On Jun 18, 2007, david@lang.hm wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Joshua David Williams wrote: >> On 6/18/07, Carlo Wood wrote: >> >>> Now, writing yet another license for the linux kernel is >>> therefore NOT the solution - if you get my drift. >> >> The new license could be written to be compatible with both versions of the >> GPL. > no it couldn't It could. Just not as part of the same work. I.e., it wouldn't be compatible in both directions, so it wouldn't make some of the most vocal Linux developers in that other thread happy. But you could achieve one-way compatibility in various ways: GPLv2+, after GPLv3 is published, and before there's a GPLv4, is pretty much it. One could also come up with any license that permits use under the terms of the GPLv2 or the GPLv3. One could also dual-license under GPLv2 and GPLv3. FWIW, IANAL. -- 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/