Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:00:19 -0700 (PDT) | From | alan <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:13:54PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> 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. > > Aha. I.e. "similar in spirit" means simply "written according to > motivations of RMS and FSF". Which means, of course, that RMS and > FSF are the sole judges in that area. There is just one problem: > it's not vague enough to be stated openly in the license. Can't > scare the suckers away - that would reduce the user freedoms, right?
I always thought that the "Spirit of the GPL" runs around 180 proof and involves Laudanum.
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