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

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 21, 2007, "David Schwartz" <davids@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It's this simple, those who chose the GPLv2 for Linux and their
> contributions to it don't want people to create derivative works of their
> works that can't be Tivoized.

Do you agree that if there's any single contributor who thinks it
can't be tivoized, and he manages his opinion to prevail in court
against a copyright holder, then it can't?  That this is the same
privilege to veto additional permissions that Al Viro has just
claimed?

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/13/293
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/13/354
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/14/117
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/14/432

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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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