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SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 21, 2007, Andrew McKay <amckay@iders.ca> wrote:
>
>> A balance of freedom to the licensee and the licenser. It's my
>> opinion that GPLv3 potentially shifts the balance too far to the
>> licensee.
>
> It's more of a balance of freedom between licensee and licensee,
> actually. It's a lot about making sure no one can acquire a
> privileged position, such that every licensee plays under the same
> rules. (The copyright holder is not *acquiring* a privileged
> position, copyright law had already granted him/her that position.)
>

I do see what you're saying here. But it does take the away the ability of a
licensee to protect themselves from another malicious licensee. If the ultimate
goal of the Free Software community is to get source code out to the public, I
think that was captured in GPLv2. GPLv3 oversteps its bounds.

Anyways I think this topic has been quite covered.

Andrew
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