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

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Message-ID: <or8xafzhnp.fsf@oliva.athome.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:46:50 -0300
From:	Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com>
To:	"Dave Neuer" <mr.fred.smoothie@...ox.com>
Cc:	"Anders Larsen" <al@...rsen.net>, david@...g.hm,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Daniel Hazelton" <dhazelton@...er.net>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"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 19, 2007, "Dave Neuer" <mr.fred.smoothie@...ox.com> wrote:

> On 6/19/07, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com> wrote:
>> But it takes only a small fraction of the tivoizers to decide to take
>> out the locks, when faced with the costs mentioned above, for us to
>> gain contributions from even a small fraction of their user base
>> (which would then grow in hacker density as a result of
>> non-tivoization) for us to end up better off.

> Even if you're correct, that only takes into account the manufacturers
> who are using Linux _now_ who might be pressured to allowed modified
> versions to run. What about the lost opportunity cost of all of the
> future manufacturers who decide to use ProprietaryOS + locks instead
> of Linux? We don't get any of their code.

True.  This is not left out of my complete argument, though.

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