Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 15th Jun 2007 22:17 UTC, submitted by prymitive
A lengthy debate that began with a suggestion to dual license the Linux kernel under the GPLv2 and the GPLv3 continues on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Throughout the ongoing thread Linux creator Linus Torvalds has spoken out on the GPLv2, the upcoming GPLv3, the BSD license, Tivo, the Free Software Foundation, and much more. During the discussion, he was asked we he chose the GPLv2 over the BSD license when he's obviously not a big fan of the FSF.
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Nope.
I don't see we disagree on "do". We disagree on
"doing something with the code". It has however nothing to do with "do", but probably sumthen to do with the parts "with the code" (possibly replaceable with "on the code", "in the code" or sumthen...)
Distributing is doing something, but it's not doing something with the code - at least not in the sense of doing something to the code. But if you're not doin' sumthen to the code, you're not doin' sumthen with the code 
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2005-10-02
Distributing the code is not doing something with the code.
Doing something with the code is using and modifying it. Distributing the code has nothing to do with what you can do with the code.
It is possible to distribute the code without doing anything with the code and it is possible to do something with the code without distributing it.