GPLv3 dispute solution - new open source license?

2007-06-18 Thread Joshua David Williams
ld ethical freedoms, so we're sitting 90 degrees between the two extremes ;-) Open Source License Version 0.1, June 2007 Copyright (C) Joshua David Williams 2007. Everyone is permitted to distribute this document, but modification is strictly prohibited. Preamble In contrast to the GNU

Re: GPLv3 dispute solution - new open source license?

2007-06-18 Thread Joshua David Williams
On 6/18/07, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You probably don't want do design a license without involving a > competent lawyer. We don't expect lawyers to write kernel code, either. True enough, and I realized this when I wrote my initial post, but it's not what I wrote so much as t

Re: GPLv3 dispute solution - new open source license?

2007-06-18 Thread Joshua David Williams
On 6/18/07, Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, writing yet another license for the linux kernel is > therefore NOT the solution - if you get my drift. The new license could be written to be compatible with both versions of the GPL. IMO, a new license written from the OSS perspective

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-18 Thread Joshua David Williams
On 6/17/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everybody else just cares about the legal reasons. > The "legal terms" is the only reason a license *exists*. That's what a > license *is*, for crying out loud! > If you don't care about the legal side, go and read the free software > man