Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757359AbXFUTzQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:55:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758883AbXFUTyU (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:54:20 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:48664 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758326AbXFUTyT (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:54:19 -0400 To: david@lang.hm Cc: Lennart Sorensen , Michael Poole , "H. Peter Anvin" , Tomas Neme , "Linux-Kernel\@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <87sl8ms9z5.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> <87k5tys8w5.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> <87645is82q.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> <20070621171612.GC10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070621174332.GD10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070621180538.GE10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:54:08 -0300 In-Reply-To: (david@lang.hm's message of "Thu\, 21 Jun 2007 11\:29\:04 -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: 1252 Lines: 33 On Jun 21, 2007, david@lang.hm wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> You can't use this code if you cooporate with anyone that requires >> DRM systems. > I think their earlier versions did say this. Show me a GPLv3 draft that did it? Start here, section 3: http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl-draft-2006-01-16.html > DRM does have some legitimate uses, for example redhat installations > not installing unsigned software is a form of DRM Doh. Then chmod og-r is DRM too. And stronger DRM while at that, since the user denied permission to read the file cannot take it back, whereas the verification of unsigned software is just a warning, that you can often bypass by telling the software to go ahead and install it regardless of signatures. -- 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/