Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752597AbXFVBXV (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:23:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751148AbXFVBXM (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:23:12 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:36872 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751088AbXFVBXL (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:23:11 -0400 To: david@lang.hm Cc: Andrew McKay , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Al Viro , Bernd Schmidt , Ingo Molnar , Daniel Hazelton , Greg KH , debian developer , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <4679557C.5080907@iders.ca> <20070620175627.319a6c55@the-village.bc.nu> <46797C52.4020907@iders.ca> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:22:06 -0300 In-Reply-To: (david@lang.hm's message of "Thu\, 21 Jun 2007 17\:20\:42 -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: 1560 Lines: 37 On Jun 21, 2007, david@lang.hm wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Jun 21, 2007, david@lang.hm wrote: >> >>> this is your right with your code. please stop browbeating people who >>> disagree with you. >> >> For the record, GPLv2 is already meant to accomplish this. I don't >> understand why people who disagree with this stance chose GPLv2. >> Isn't "no further restrictions" clear enough? > everyone else is reading this as 'no further license restrictions' I didn't see anyone else add "license" where you did. "No further restrictions on the rights granted herein" is very powerful and extensive, and that's how it was meant to be. > not no hardware restrictions' becouse GPLv2 explicitly says that it > has nothing to do with running the software, only with distributing > it. It also says that running the software is not restricted, and since copyright law in the US doesn't regulate execution, receiving the software does grant the recipient the right to run the software. So the distributor can't impose restrictions on it. -- 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/