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    SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
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    On Jun 21, 2007, david@lang.hm wrote:

    > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
    >> On Jun 21, 2007, david@lang.hm wrote:
    >>
    >>> this is your right with your code. please stop browbeating people who
    >>> disagree with you.
    >>
    >> For the record, GPLv2 is already meant to accomplish this. I don't
    >> understand why people who disagree with this stance chose GPLv2.
    >> Isn't "no further restrictions" clear enough?

    > everyone else is reading this as 'no further license restrictions'

    I didn't see anyone else add "license" where you did. "No further
    restrictions on the rights granted herein" is very powerful and
    extensive, and that's how it was meant to be.

    > not no hardware restrictions' becouse GPLv2 explicitly says that it
    > has nothing to do with running the software, only with distributing
    > it.

    It also says that running the software is not restricted, and since
    copyright law in the US doesn't regulate execution, receiving the
    software does grant the recipient the right to run the software. So
    the distributor can't impose restrictions on it.

    --
    Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
    FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
    Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
    Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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