Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755874AbXFSVOX (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:14:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751511AbXFSVOQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:14:16 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45594 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750869AbXFSVOP (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:14:15 -0400 To: Anders Larsen 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 Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <1182244240l.11262l.0l@ecxwww1.reanet.de> <1182283260l.4416l.0l@oscar.alarsen.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:13:48 -0300 In-Reply-To: <1182283260l.4416l.0l@oscar.alarsen.net> (Anders Larsen's message of "Tue\, 19 Jun 2007 22\:01\:00 +0200") 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: 1394 Lines: 32 On Jun 19, 2007, Anders Larsen wrote: > 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? We might lose your contributions, that's true, I've never ever denied that. And this will even have a cost for you, especially if you go proprietary rather than some other more liberal Free Software license, or stick with a GPLv2 Linux and hope it's never ruled as prohibiting tivoization, or move to Linux on ROM. But it takes only a small fraction of the tivoizers to decide to take out the locks, when faced with the costs mentioned above, for us to gain contributions from even a small fraction of their user base (which would then grow in hacker density as a result of non-tivoization) for us to end up better off. Or so I believe ;-) -- 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/