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 1I8upb-0004j8-QS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:19:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6C9IXvs026926; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:18:33 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6C9GgPZ024676 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:16:43 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ECC265331 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:16:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 0.296 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.296 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.094, BAYES_05=-1.11, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=1.5] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3gH4jumXn5R3 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:16:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A4E565464 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:16:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I8umo-0000I1-VA for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:16:34 +0200 Received: from 82.153.75.149 ([82.153.75.149]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:16:34 +0200 Received: from slong by 82.153.75.149 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:16:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steve Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Watch out for license changes to GPL-3. Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:18:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: <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> <20070710181130.GA30117@kroah.com> <4693EE1A.1020007@lacqui.com> <20070710204929.GA1356@kroah.com> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.153.75.149 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: db49ede0-eb78-48c4-ae11-9233e2c6e7b2 X-Archives-Hash: 80515c85b4518f59f1122ff7e39771e8 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. Or is it `acceptable' for me to put GPLv3 on, say, an ebuild I wrote from scratch? (NB this is the ebuild, not the software packaged.) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list