Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752258AbXFZHr4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:47:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751271AbXFZHrr (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:47:47 -0400 Received: from lsd-gw.ic.unicamp.br ([143.106.7.165]:33420 "EHLO boneca.lsd.ic.unicamp.br" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751217AbXFZHrq (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:47:46 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3? References: <20070622013417.GT21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20070622041949.GA15625@thunk.org> <20070625132853.GH10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070626041013.GG24745@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> From: Alexandre Oliva Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:47:34 -0300 In-Reply-To: (Alexandre Oliva's message of "Tue\, 26 Jun 2007 03\:33\:52 -0300") 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: 1232 Lines: 26 On Jun 26, 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 26, 2007, Jan Harkes wrote: >> You could argue that they do not restrict copying, distribution >> and modification of the sources in general, only of the specific copy >> they distribute. > "We don't oppose that you do any of these things, once you get the > source code. We just make it difficult (hopefully impossible) that > you'll get to the source code in the first place." Actually, they could even claim you don't need the source code to make modifications. The license even says the source code is the most convenient form to make modifications, not the only form. Now, that the others suck rocks is not their fault, is 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/