Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756210AbXIQP0S (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:26:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754216AbXIQP0E (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:26:04 -0400 Received: from mail1.webmaster.com ([216.152.64.169]:2248 "EHLO mail1.webmaster.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754148AbXIQP0D convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:26:03 -0400 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Can E. Acar" , , , "Daniel Hazelton" , "Eben Moglen" , "Lawrence Lessig" , "Bradley M. Kuhn" , "Matt Norwood" Subject: RE: Wasting our Freedom Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:25:14 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20070917133845.GJ18232@stusta.de> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Authenticated-Sender: joelkatz@webmaster.com X-Spam-Processed: mail1.webmaster.com, Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:25:59 -0700 (not processed: message from trusted or authenticated source) X-MDRemoteIP: 206.171.168.138 X-Return-Path: davids@webmaster.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: davids@webmaster.com X-MDAV-Processed: mail1.webmaster.com, Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:26:00 -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1307 Lines: 27 > And if you choose the GPL the code you distribute will be under the GPL > *only* forever [1], so what value would be in shipping terms that are > void? Not true. You cannot chose the license that applies to other people's code. The code you distribute contains protectable elements from different authors. Each element is still offered under whatever license the original author offered it under. You cannot affect the license grant from the author to the lawful possessor of code you did not author. The code you *contribute* will be under the GPL *only* forever. But the code you distribute will contain elements from different authors offered under different licenses. > And if the author intended to have the BSD licence text kept intact when > his code gets incorporated into GPL'ed code, why didn't he simply make > his code BSD-only? In fact the only difference between BSD-only code and > BSD/GPL dual-licenced code is that you can't remove the BSD licence text > for the former when incorporating it into GPL'ed code... That's true. DS - 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/