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Message-Id: <200706152112.04218.rob@landley.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:12:03 -0400
From: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com>
Cc: Florin Malita <fmalita@...il.com>,
Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
debian developer <debiandev@...il.com>, david@...g.hm,
Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@...one.net.tr>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
On Friday 15 June 2007 15:28:29 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 15, 2007, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 14 June 2007 22:25:57 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >> Is the signature not derived from the bits in the GPLed component, as
> >> much as it is derived from the key?
> >
> > Actually, you can't copyright, trademark, or patent a number.
>
> Agreed. And this counter-argument of yours is a distraction.
>
> I was careful to not talk about "derived work".
"Is the signature not derived from X as much as it is derived from Y."
"I was careful to not talk about "derived work"."
Which personality of yours am I currently addressing?
> Please read it again
> under this clarification (that I'm pretty sure I'd already made
> before, but it's getting hard to keep track of everything in this
> thread ;-)
I'm going to stop feeding the troll now...
Rob
--
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
- Ken Thompson.
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