Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758949AbXFUUQX (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:16:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752955AbXFUUQQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:16:16 -0400 Received: from gateway12.iders.ca ([206.45.72.61]:58030 "EHLO koko.iders.ca" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752508AbXFUUQO (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:16:14 -0400 Message-ID: <467ADC8A.5080401@iders.ca> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:16:10 -0500 From: Andrew McKay User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexandre Oliva 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1179 Lines: 27 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > 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.) > I do see what you're saying here. But it does take the away the ability of a licensee to protect themselves from another malicious licensee. If the ultimate goal of the Free Software community is to get source code out to the public, I think that was captured in GPLv2. GPLv3 oversteps its bounds. Anyways I think this topic has been quite covered. Andrew - 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/