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

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On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:


On Jun 20, 2007, "Jesper Juhl" <[email protected]> wrote:


On 19/06/07, Alexandre Oliva <[email protected]> wrote:

On Jun 18, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:

In the GPLv3 world, we have already discussed in this thread how you can
follow the GPLv3 by making the TECHNICALLY INFERIOR choice of using a ROM
instead of using a flash device.


Yes.  This is one option that doesn't bring any benefits to anyone.
It maintains the status quo for users and the community, but it loses
the ability for the vendor to upgrade, fix or otherwise control the
users.  Bad for the vendor.



Also bad for the user


We already know the vendor doesn't care about the user, so why should
we take this into account when analyzing the reasoning of the vendor?
no, we don't know this. you attribute the reason for the lockdown to be anti-user. others view it as being pro-user becouse it lets the user get functionality that they wouldn't have access to otherwise. 

David Lang
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