On Jun 15, 2007, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:20:19PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> >> So, you see, your statement above, about wanting to be able to use >> other people's improvements, cannot be taken without qualification.
> No. Linus and other Linux kernels might *want* to take other people's > improvements, but thanks to Richard Stallman's choices for GPLv3, they > can *not* legally take other people's improvements without violating > the GPLv3 license. This argument is backwards. It's because of Linus' choice for GPLv2 that he can't take improvements under the GPLv3. Had he chosen any other GPLv3-compatible license, he could. And the same applies to any other incompatible pair of licenses. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
