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SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
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On Jun 15, 2007, Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> wrote:

> Obviously Linus feels that the spirit of the GPLv2 is exactly what
> he wanted

spirit != letter. He liked the letter. He couldn't even tell spirit
from letter 2 or 3 days ago.

The spirit is the motivations behind the author of the license.
Anyone who thinks the motivations of RMS and the FSF are not defending
users' freedoms, as defined in the Free Software Definition, hasn't
been around for very long.

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Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
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Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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