From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750985AbVLLDD5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:03:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751028AbVLLDD5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:03:57 -0500 Received: from user-0c938qu.cable.mindspring.com ([24.145.163.94]:35044 "EHLO tsurukikun.utopios.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750985AbVLLDD4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:03:56 -0500 From: Luke-Jr To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Subject: Re: GNU/Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:03:42 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: rms@gnu.org, coywolf@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <21d7e9970512051610n1244467am12adc8373c1a4473@mail.gmail.com> <20051212004458.855D7CF402E@tsurukikun.utopios.org> <439CC958.5060607@wolfmountaingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <439CC958.5060607@wolfmountaingroup.com> Public-GPG-Key: 0xD53E9583 Public-GPG-Key-URI: http://dashjr.org/~luke-jr/myself/Luke-Jr.pgp IM-Address: luke-jr@jabber.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512120303.43322.luke-jr@users.sourceforge.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 12 December 2005 00:50, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Richard M. Stallman wrote: > >--text follows this line-- > > I would be happy to propose several changes in future revisions. > > Let me know where, when, and what to provide. You can be assured > > I'll provide some very excellent input on these issues. > > > >We accepting comments on the first public draft of GNU GPL v3 once it > >is made public on Jan 16. > > > >See gplv3.fsf.org for more information about how this will work. > > You can be assured I will submit proposed changes. Something along the > same lines as the CDDL. Needs to protect receivers of the code from IP > claims IIRC, something like that is planned (assuming you're talking about patents). > and also needs to accomodate mixing of non-GPL components without > contaminating add on modules and functionality. That's the LGPL (Lesser GPL), not the GPL. The GPL's linkage clauses are by design. -- I digitally sign my emails. If you see an attachment with .asc, then that means your email client doesn't support PGP digital signatures. http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/faqs.html#q1.1