Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 | From | Alexandre Oliva <> | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:08:38 -0300 |
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On Jun 15, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:
> On Friday 15 June 2007 15:49:00 Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Jun 15, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote: >> > On Thursday 14 June 2007 23:19:24 Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> >> IANAL, but AFAICT it doesn't. Still, encoded in the spirit (that >> >> refers to free software, bringing in the free software definition), is >> >> the notion of protecting users' freedoms, among them the freeom #0, to >> >> run the software for any purpose. >> > >> > And where in GPLv2 is "Freedom #0"? >> >> It may sound like thin evidence for someone arriving from Venus today, >> but the preamble talks about "free software", some passages clearly >> imply that software under this license is "free software", the license >> is published by the Free Software Foundation, and the Free Software >> Foundation has a published definition of Free Software that >> establishes the 4 freedoms.
> And that doesn't matter.
Doens't matter for what?
To indicate what the Linux copyright holders meant? Sure it doesn't. I never claimed it did.
To indicate what the authors of the GPL meant? To indicate the spirit of the license they wrote? Yes, it matters a lot.
And the latter is what my participation here is all about: to show that the spirit didn't change at all.
Until you acknowledge and understand this, I should refrain from answering your other postings.
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