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

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Message-ID: <ormyyw8yj4.fsf@oliva.athome.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:32:15 -0300
From:	Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com>
To:	david@...g.hm
Cc:	Johannes Stezenbach <js@...uxtv.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@...nline.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	debian developer <debiandev@...il.com>,
	Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@...one.net.tr>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

On Jun 18, 2007, david@...g.hm wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
>>> But since the software is good, and moving to another software
>>> would be costly in various dimentions, the vendor has an incentive
>>> to stick with the software they have.

> but if regulations or other contracts require tamper-resistant
> hardware they have no choices other then to fork the existing GPLv2
> versions or switch to alternate options for anything that switches to
> GPLv3

Where by "alternate options" I hope you mean non-copyleft or
tivoizable (copyleft by definition) software, or (newer versions of)
the same software they already use, but in ROM.  (I point this out
because people keep forgetting all the available options when they
claim to enumerate all available options ;-)

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