From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I8KOU-00080Q-SB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:25:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6AIO5aL031465; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:24:05 GMT Received: from canuck.infradead.org (canuck.infradead.org [209.217.80.40]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6AIMAMq029173 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:22:11 GMT Received: from dsl093-040-174.pdx1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.40.174] helo=localhost) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1I8KLg-0005te-IS for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:22:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:11:30 -0700 From: Greg KH To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Watch out for license changes to GPL-3. Message-ID: <20070710181130.GA30117@kroah.com> References: <1183832495.20203.11.camel@SOLACE> <468FDCFE.1060404@gentoo.org> <4690C4B8.4000407@gentoo.org> <200707081350.27220.philantrop@gentoo.org> <1183899969.6634.1.camel@localhost> <20070708164657.4edd8378@localhost> <20070709163914.GB16617@kroah.com> <20070709210720.4583dd06@localhost> <20070709212456.GA22067@kroah.com> <20070710191035.2dfcfa98@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070710191035.2dfcfa98@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) X-Archives-Salt: 8ed8a8df-58e2-4a9d-b005-2ff325c1417c X-Archives-Hash: 79d7358ea42f4f4f1757e51f4b53d16f On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:10:35PM +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: > > > > Can you explain more. If the kernel can be tivoized by someone > > > > I'm sorry, but "tivoized" is not a verb. Please explain what you mean > > by this. > > I mean if someone distribute a kernel with a licence that forbid to remove the > functions he added even if we don't want them (as example drm at the kernel > level as in Vista), But that's impossible with the current Linux kernel license, so how could that ever happen? Why even try to discuss an impossiblity? > > > , who will use this kernel? How can this affect the software xyz that > > > have a v3 licence? > > > > I do not understand the question, can you reprase it? > > > > who will use this kernel when we can get a vanilla kernel and plenty of > patches and do whatever we want to do with them? As creating such a kernel is not possible with the current Linux kernel, again, I don't see how anyone could even use it. > Will this affect the licencing or the distribution of the software xyz? The license of the Linux kernel has no affect on the license or distribution of any sofware that runs on top of it, so I do not see how it would matter. thanks, greg k-h -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list