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

From: Alexandre Oliva
Date: Thu Jun 21 2007 - 15:54:34 EST


On Jun 21, 2007, Andrew McKay <amckay@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A balance of freedom to the licensee and the licenser. It's my
> opinion that GPLv3 potentially shifts the balance too far to the
> licensee.

It's more of a balance of freedom between licensee and licensee,
actually. It's a lot about making sure no one can acquire a
privileged position, such that every licensee plays under the same
rules. (The copyright holder is not *acquiring* a privileged
position, copyright law had already granted him/her that position.)

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