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

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Message-ID: <161717d50706201019l11d82b3bmf7596572f872fb61@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:19:36 -0400
From:	"Dave Neuer" <mr.fred.smoothie@...ox.com>
To:	"Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Helge Hafting" <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no>,
	"Alexandre Oliva" <aoliva@...hat.com>,
	"Daniel Hazelton" <dhazelton@...er.net>,
	"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>,
	"Paul Mundt" <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	"Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>,
	"debian developer" <debiandev@...il.com>,
	"david@...g.hm" <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 6/20/07, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > To call people who draw the line in
> > a different place than you hypocrites is BS.
>
> Very poor example. In many parts of the world "Just quit" is "just starve
> to death".

> So please DON'T equate the two. Tivo is a minor control argument about a
> silly little TV recording box. Employee rights is a matter of life, death
> and slavery for many many people.

Well, I consider your eloquent counter-argument to have strengthened
my point that such "rights to moral coercion" arguments are inherently
subjective and highly context-dependent.

Dave
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