Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 | From | Alexandre Oliva <> | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:55:09 -0300 |
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On Jun 14, 2007, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Diego Calleja wrote:
>> And the FSF is trying to control the design and licensing of >> hardware throught the influence of their software.
It's not. It's only working to ensure recipients of the Free Software can modify and share the software.
>> What the FSF is trying to do is EVIL.
> I wouldn't go that far (although, in the heat of the moment I probably > _have_ gone that far. Oops ;).
:-)
> I literally think that the GPLv2 has worked so well exactly because you > can strip it of its high-falutin' morality and the FSF Kool-Aid, and just > see it as a "tit-for-tat" license. It allows everybody to see that the > work they put in (into the _software_) is protected, and people cannot > make improved versions of that software and distribute those improved > versions without giving you the right back to use those improvements (to > the _software_).
Can you explain to me how it is that the Tivoization provisions (the only objection you have to GPLv3) conflict with this?
(nevermind our disagreement as to whether "tit-for-tat" applies to either GPLv2 or GPLv3)
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