linux-kernel - Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

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Date:	Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:42:50 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Cc:	Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Sergey Panov <sipan@...an.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

Hi!

> > The reason a clause such as that will work is that people have no natural
> > right to redistribute Linux.
> 
> Right. Any copyright license will basically say
> 
> 	"You can distribute this assuming you do so-and-so"
> 
> and a contract can actually extend on that and also limit you in other 
> ways than just distribution, ie you can sat
> 
> 	"You can buy this, but you cannot legally benchmark it"
> 
> However, none of that actually extends your "derived work" in any way.

You are right, of course, but you can affect derived work by stuff
such as:

You may not copy Linux. As a special exception, you may
copy/distribute
Linux if you never copied Tolstoy before.

That would probably work.... in cases like Tivo anyway.
							Pavel
-- 
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
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