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

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Message-Id: <1182235009.17460.6.camel@rousalka.dyndns.org>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:36:49 +0200
From:	Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@...oste.net>
To:	david@...g.hm
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

> > But you're not the user of the software on my laptop.  I am.
> 
> ahh, but by your own argument you aren't
> 
> the software on your laptop is owned by people like Linus, Al Viro, David 
> M, Alan Cox, etc.

More accurately according to the GPL v2 theory Linus advanced the laptop
you paid is a shared property of the laptop manufacturer (who can
install whatever he likes without your input thanks to DRM) and the
kernel developper (who gets the source code).

You as end-user are only there to give this technical elite the money
they need to continue their activities (I'm forcing the point? Find me
one anti-GPL-v3 message in this thread that acknowledged the buyer/user
had any right)

This thanks to DRM which was not provided for when GPL v2 was written
and has been retroactively declared kosher.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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