Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759534AbXFUTyd (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:54:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756267AbXFUTyM (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:54:12 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:48625 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755681AbXFUTyK (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:54:10 -0400 To: Andrew McKay Cc: Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Al Viro , Bernd Schmidt , 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: <20070614235004.GA14952@elte.hu> <20070615011012.6c09066e@the-village.bc.nu> <20070615012623.GA25189@elte.hu> <20070615101007.0cbfd078@the-village.bc.nu> <4673CA7C.5040207@t-online.de> <20070616181902.GB21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> <4679557C.5080907@iders.ca> <20070620175627.319a6c55@the-village.bc.nu> <46797C52.4020907@iders.ca> <20070621122221.27fd7648@the-village.bc. nu> <467A99D6.6000605@iders.ca> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:48:04 -0300 In-Reply-To: <467A99D6.6000605@iders.ca> (Andrew McKay's message of "Thu\, 21 Jun 2007 10\:31\:34 -0500") 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: 1018 Lines: 22 On Jun 21, 2007, Andrew McKay wrote: > A balance of freedom to the licensee and the licenser. It's my > opinion that GPLv3 potentially shifts the balance too far to the > licensee. It's more of a balance of freedom between licensee and licensee, actually. It's a lot about making sure no one can acquire a privileged position, such that every licensee plays under the same rules. (The copyright holder is not *acquiring* a privileged position, copyright law had already granted him/her that position.) -- 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/