Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Watch out for license changes to GPL-3.

[Greg KH <gregkh@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:18:13AM +0100, Steve Long wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > The GPLv2 is all about distribution, not use cases, so yes, this is the
> > case and is perfictly legal with GPLv2 (even the FSF explicitly told
> > Tivo that what they were doing was legal and acceptable.)
> >
> Well legal, maybe, ie acceptable under the terms.
> 
> > So, what is the problem here?  The kernel is not going to change
> > licenses any time soon, so I don't understand your objections.
> > 
> I think the point is that people who oppose this kind of thing (yes,
> including me) would rather _our_ contributions were under GPLv3. Yet at the
> moment, we effectively have no choice.

That is _totally_ different than the case which was specifically brought
up about the whole "tivo" issue and the Linux kernel.

Ebuilds are different, I have no opinion on that (but I do know that the
DRM issues mean nothing for them, that only pertains to the kernel).

thanks,

greg k-h
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