Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759327AbXFZUJU (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:09:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758104AbXFZUJL (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:09:11 -0400 Received: from dsl081-033-126.lax1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.33.126]:36652 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758058AbXFZUJK (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:09:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:08:52 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Alexandre Oliva cc: Al Boldi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <200706172319.22381.a1426z@gawab.com> <200706260717.19677.a1426z@gawab.com> <200706261344.23906.a1426z@gawab.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1499 Lines: 35 On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 26, 2007, david@lang.hm wrote: > >> unless you are saying that the GPLv3 is saying that a third party link >> now _is_ sufficiant. > > Yup. The improvement in GPLv3 is to relax the requirement of > providing source code in physical medium if you choose to not > distribute it along with the binaries. It's recognizing that internet > access is no longer a barrier that could stop someone from obtaining > the sources they're entitled to. Even someone who doesn't have > regular or fast internet access can hire a third party who does to > perform the download and record it. > > I.e., with GPLv3, you *can* point at the sources you used, even in a > site that you don't control. > > However, if the site takes the sources out, you're still responsible > for providing sources to those who received the sources from you from > that point on. Or something like that, IANAL ;-) this sounds like a step backwards, you may not have the sources at that point if you were relying on the other site to host them. and by the way, internet access never was a barrier that could stop someone from obtaining them, the only issue was you hosting the source vs someone else hosting the source. David Lang - 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/