Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752544AbXFTVKf (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:10:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751064AbXFTVK1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:10:27 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:52819 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750769AbXFTVKZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:10:25 -0400 To: "Jesper Juhl" Cc: "Linus Torvalds" , "Al Viro" , "Bernd Schmidt" , "Alan Cox" , "Ingo Molnar" , "Daniel Hazelton" , "Greg KH" , "debian developer" , david@lang.hm, "Tarkan Erimer" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <9a8748490706201034j43139301w5a18c172d688c724@mail.gmail.com> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:09:11 -0300 In-Reply-To: <9a8748490706201034j43139301w5a18c172d688c724@mail.gmail.com> (Jesper Juhl's message of "Wed\, 20 Jun 2007 19\:34\:57 +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: 1361 Lines: 30 On Jun 20, 2007, "Jesper Juhl" wrote: > On 19/06/07, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Jun 18, 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> > In the GPLv3 world, we have already discussed in this thread how you can >> > follow the GPLv3 by making the TECHNICALLY INFERIOR choice of using a ROM >> > instead of using a flash device. >> >> Yes. This is one option that doesn't bring any benefits to anyone. >> It maintains the status quo for users and the community, but it loses >> the ability for the vendor to upgrade, fix or otherwise control the >> users. Bad for the vendor. > Also bad for the user We already know the vendor doesn't care about the user, so why should we take this into account when analyzing the reasoning of the vendor? The rest of your paragraph was covered in what I wrote, BTW. -- 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/