Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 | From | Alexandre Oliva <> | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:35:01 -0300 |
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On Jun 14, 2007, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> I want to be able to use other peoples improvements. If they release > improved versions of the software I started, I want to be able to merge > those improvements if I want to.
Hmm... So, if someone takes one of the many GPLv2+ contributions and makes improvements under GPLv3+, you're going to make an effort to accept them, rather than rejecting them because they're under the GPLv3?
> Your *IDIOTIC* suggestion is explicitly against the whole POINT! By saying > that I shouldn't accept contributions like that, you just INVALIDATED the > whole point of the license in the first place!
I understand. I assumed you had some trust that people would abide by your wish to permit TiVOization, and that authors of modifications were entitled to make "whatever restrictions they wanted" on their code.
Pardon me if I think your position is at least somewhat incoherent. Can you help me make sense of it?
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