Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752620AbXFVBea (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:34:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751236AbXFVBeV (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:34:21 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:35578 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751200AbXFVBeU (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:34:20 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:34:17 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: davids@webmaster.com, "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3? Message-ID: <20070622013417.GT21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2020 Lines: 38 On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 10:00:22PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > Do you agree that if there's any single contributor who thinks it > can't be tivoized, and he manages his opinion to prevail in court > against a copyright holder, then it can't? That this is the same > privilege to veto additional permissions that Al Viro has just > claimed? You know, I'm rapidly losing any respect for your integrity. The only "privelege" claimed is that of not relicensing one's contributions. _You_ are perfectly welcome to allow distribution of your code under whatever license you happen to like. So is anybody else (provided that they separate their code from that of other contributors). I cannot do that to your code. Neither can Linus. If Alan sues some company for doing things violating in his opinion his copyright on some of his code *and* wins it, then it's likely to simplify later cases of that kind, provided that situation is similar enough to make the legal arguments used in the first case apply in the later one. If Joe Random Wanker takes your code (in gcc, kernel, whatever) and starts distributing it in violation of conditions set in your copyright *and* you sue him *and* win (which is bloody likely), then further cases of that kind get somewhat easier to win. Not much, actually, since there's already a whole lot of precedents already. What really gets me is that you know it. And you know that just about everyone here knows it. Yet you keep playing with rather pathetic attempts of innuendo and misdirection, when it's bloody obvious that you won't even get a PR win out of the entire mess you've been sustaining for about a week already (seriously, count postings in these threads). The first law of holes: when you are in one, stop digging... - 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/