From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932257AbWBFRkt (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 12:40:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932263AbWBFRkt (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 12:40:49 -0500 Received: from user-0c93tin.cable.mindspring.com ([24.145.246.87]:2026 "EHLO tsurukikun.utopios.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932257AbWBFRks (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 12:40:48 -0500 From: Luke-Jr To: Joerg Schilling Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) (was: Rationale for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK?) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 17:40:54 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, rlrevell@joe-job.com, matthias.andree@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060123105634.GA17439@merlin.emma.line.org> <200602031724.55729.luke@dashjr.org> <43E7545E.nail7GN11WAQ9@burner> In-Reply-To: <43E7545E.nail7GN11WAQ9@burner> 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-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602061740.57917.luke@dashjr.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 06 February 2006 13:51, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Luke-Jr wrote: > > ProDVD is immoral software. I use growisofs. > > growisofs is immoral, see > > http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/solaris.com.html > > Either this, or the GPL applies, but not both as intended by the author.... You can dual license any work. Someone who receives growisofs under this license would not be allowed to redistribute it without permission granted therein. However, if that same person receives growisofs under the GPL license, the GPL terms apply. A GPL license only applies if the person has received the software under those terms. While most GPL'd software is available online under the GPL license, making it effectively everyone to receive the license, it is not necessary. On Monday 06 February 2006 17:25, you wrote: > Peter Read wrote: > > I'm confused about where software has inherited a sense of morality from? > > > > Equally, as I can't see any restriction of the GPL in that link I > > don't get the reference. What it's essentially saying to me is 'if > > you don't want it under the GPL licence terms, talk to the copyright > > holder(s) or their authorised representative about alternatives'. > > Please read again carefully. It says that it is not allowed to be shipped > together with commercial software unless the publisher did pay money. However, that applies only for that particular license. If the publisher obtains the rights elsewhere (eg, the GPL licensed version), then they may do so provided they comply with the rest of the GPL terms. Note that the GPL prohibits distributing growisofs linked to non-GPL-compatible software. Thus, if Solaris is not under a GPL-compatible license, the GPL prohibits distributing growisofs with it.