Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754787AbXFVGP7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:15:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751592AbXFVGPw (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:15:52 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33019 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751219AbXFVGPw (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:15:52 -0400 To: Al Viro Cc: davids@webmaster.com, "Linux-Kernel\@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3? References: <20070622013417.GT21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20070622052315.GU21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:15:23 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20070622052315.GU21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> (Al Viro's message of "Fri\, 22 Jun 2007 06\:23\:15 +0100") 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: 1120 Lines: 27 On Jun 22, 2007, Al Viro wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:26:54AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> No, this thread was about additional permissions to combine with other >> licenses. I didn't suggest anything about relicensing whatsoever, >> that's all noise out of not understanding the suggestion. > And that constitutes the change of license. I stand corrected. I misread what you wrote as "relicensing under GPLv3, or GPLv2+". Sorry. > Suppose ZFS _is_ pulled into the tree via that mechanism. Or even kept outside, such that third parties can create a combined work and distribute that. -- 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/