Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3?

From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: "jimmy bahuleyan" <knight.camelot@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3?
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:13:43 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <orejk4j16w.fsf@oliva.athome.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490706211620l64178d16gcfd164929b62e83f@mail.gmail.com> (Jesper Juhl's message of "Fri\, 22 Jun 2007 01\:20\:08 +0200")

On Jun 21, 2007, "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:

> My point was that your signature does indicate your affiliation with a
> lot of different organizations/companies, so unless you explicitly
> state that you are not speaking on behalf of them it's easy to assume
> you do.

And then, I did that a number of times in the other recent long
thread, whenever I made statements that could be construed as FSF's
opinion.  Now, this time I missed it, added the clarification just in
case, and you pick on me.  Puhlease!

> Quoting from that web page: "FSF Latin America is a sister
> organization of Free Software Foundation (FSF)"

> So when your signature states that you are a "FSF Latin America Board
> Member" and FSFLA is a "sister organization of Free Software
> Foundation (FSF)" that, at least to me, implies some association with
> the FSF.

How does that make me an FSF Board Member, as you claimed at first?

Yes, I'm a co-founder of an independent organization that, for sharing
the same goals as other FSFs, was welcomed into the global network of
FSFes.

That we have the same goals does not imply I'm in any way associated
with the FSF.  Your faulty assumption and your attempts to paper over
your mistake won't make it true.

> No, it does not, but it's easy to mistake a post by someone posting
> from a company email and including that company in their signature for
> speaking for that company.

Indeed, compiler engineers are often the bearers of company's voices.

Not!

> I'm simply replying to you that indeed it is not clear for whom you
> speak with all that info in your signature and the email address you
> post from.

Understood.  Thanks for doing that so nicely.

I'm glad it's clear now.

-- 
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}