Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764900AbXFSUBU (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:01:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753703AbXFSUBN (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:01:13 -0400 Received: from mail2.ameuro.de ([195.140.232.8]:49517 "EHLO mail2.ameuro.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752106AbXFSUBM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:01:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:01:00 +0200 From: Anders Larsen Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: david@lang.hm, Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Daniel Hazelton , Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , debian developer , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton References: <1182244240l.11262l.0l@ecxwww1.reanet.de> In-Reply-To: (from aoliva@redhat.com on Tue Jun 19 20:23:00 2007) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.3.13 Message-Id: <1182283260l.4416l.0l@oscar.alarsen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-AEV-Kundenmail-Information: AEV Virus and Spam Secure Mail System X-AEV-Kundenmail-SpamCheck: X-MailScanner-From: al@alarsen.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1125 Lines: 27 On 2007-06-19 20:23:00, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > If you take the Wikipedia definition of Tivoization, you'll see it's > about copyleft software only, and no law mandates the use of copyleft > software. There's no end to bad laws, but a law that mandated the use > of copyleft (=> free) software and at the same time prohibited > modifications by the user would be a very contradictory one. You're absolutely right... Nobody forces us to use Linux in the credit-card terminals I'm currently working on; of course we could have selected a proprietary solution (and we would be forced to, were the Linux kernel and/or certain crucial libraries or utilities GPLv3 only). Only, your statement above seems to run counter to your previous claims that the "anti-tivoisation" provisions of GPLv3 would bring _more_ developers to copyleft software. So which one is it? Cheers Anders - 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/