Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758787AbXFUDew (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:34:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753702AbXFUDed (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:34:33 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:47883 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753118AbXFUDec (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:34:32 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Helge Hafting , Daniel Hazelton , Chris Friesen , Paul Mundt , Lennart Sorensen , Greg KH , debian developer , "david\@lang.hm" , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <4671B734.1040401@nortel.com> <200706142155.34298.dhazelton@enter.net> <46791A35.4000009@aitel.hist.no> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:33:12 -0300 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed\, 20 Jun 2007 09\:32\:37 -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: 1195 Lines: 26 On Jun 20, 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > And anybody who thinks others don't have the "right to choice", and then > tries to talk about "freedoms" is a damn hypocritical moron. Yeah, it is indeed possible to twist it such that it sounds bad. The important point is that one's freedom ends where another's starts. Unlimited freedom would be freedom to trample over others' freedoms too, and that's not right. That's why freedom of choice has to be used with care. Even fundamental human rights sometimes clash with each other. We don't fight for the freedoms as goals in themselves. We fight for them because we understand they're essential for the common good. -- 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/