Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

David Greaves
2007-06-15T10:19:17Z

Daniel Hazelton wrote:
>> Now for a different PoV:
>> Do I think Tivoisation is bad for the community ?
>> Of course I think it is but your mileage may vary.
>
> And I happen to agree with you. What I disagree with is taking steps to
> make "bad == illegal". I also have a problem with doing things that force my
> viewpoint on other people.

Surely it's more:
bad == go away and don't use future improvements to our software anymore please.
??

*If* you think it's bad (Linus doesn't as far as the kernel goes) then isn't it
reasonable to exclude 'bad for the community' from the community?

This isn't retroactive - they can continue to use any V2 software they had, they
wouldn't be able to use V3 developments.

That seems to me to be a very, very reasonable thing to do (and very much *not*
bad == illegal IMHO)

David

PS well, I was just seeing if anyone had fixed my libata/md bug yet but this
seemed more interesting.
PPS and Tejun has, I'm off...