Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758887AbXFTAck (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:32:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755458AbXFTAcd (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:32:33 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:42766 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755334AbXFTAcc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:32:32 -0400 To: =?utf-8?Q?Hans-J=C3=BCrgen?= Koch Cc: Alan Cox , Ingo Molnar , Daniel Hazelton , Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , debian developer , david@lang.hm, Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Chris Friesen , Bernd Schmidt , Robin Getz , Rob Landley , Bron Gondwana , Al Viro Subject: Re: mea culpa on the meaning of Tivoization References: <200706191022.21869.hjk@linutronix.de> <200706200008.35152.hjk@linutronix.de> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:30:30 -0300 In-Reply-To: <200706200008.35152.hjk@linutronix.de> (=?utf-8?Q?=22Hans-J?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=BCrgen?= Koch"'s message of "Wed\, 20 Jun 2007 00\:08\:34 +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=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1385 Lines: 32 On Jun 19, 2007, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: >> >> Let's just hope it never is, or that some influx of >> >> long-sighted comes in >> >> > Kernel programmers are short-sighted? What kind of arrogance is that? >> >> It's just stating the obvious. The upgrade path is a nightmare. > Well, maybe. Maybe this is a topic that needs further discussion. > But I don't find it very important as we're not in a situation where > we urgently need a new license. Agreed. It could have been discussed years ago, when the clarification on GPLv2-only came up, but it's still not urgent, and hopefully it never will be. It wouldn't be a bad idea to think about it, though. Just in case it's not clear, this is in no way related with GPLv3. It's just that GPLv3 discussions appear to get more people thinking about relicensing, and then the "impossibilities" of doing it come up. -- 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/