Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:15:10 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > Then would you consider relicensing Linux under GPLv3 + additional > permission for Tivoization?
No. I'm not stupid.
The GPLv3 explicitly allows removing additional permissions.
So anybody who does "GPLv3 + additional permissions" is basically setting himself up for people taking those permissions away.
Since the Tivo kind of permission is in my opinion a *fundamental right* (or call if "freedom" if you want), then "GPLv3 + additional permissions" simply is not a viable alternative, since anybody could just decide to make improvements and strip those permissions.
The whole notion of "additional permissions" in the GPLv3 is totally pointless, since it's legally *exactly* the same as allowing dual licensing (which a license doesn't even have to spell out: you can dual-license *regardless* of the license!).
The reason for the "additional permissions" is just to make the LGPL go away, and become a sub-clause of the GPLv3.
If you really thought anything else, you're just uninformed and stupid, and didn't think things through.
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