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Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 05:48:26 -0300 From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@....ic.unicamp.br> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3? On Jun 28, 2007, Alexandre Oliva <oliva@....ic.unicamp.br> wrote: > On Jun 28, 2007, Alexandre Oliva <oliva@....ic.unicamp.br> wrote: >> So, let's narrow the scenario to: tivoized machine downloads binary >> from protected site, refrains from downloading sources that it could >> download, user can still access and copy the binaries, but can't >> obtain the sources because the machine opted not to get them. >> Now, the user can't distribute the binaries, because doing so without >> being able to get the sources to pass them on would be copyright >> infringement. Would a court see this as a restriction on distribution >> imposed by the distributor? Or by the copyright holder? > I'm not sure my point was clear (not even to myself), so let me try to > clarify with a slightly different scenario. http://fsfla.org/svnwiki/blogs/lxo/2007-07-01-gplv3-tivo-and-linux.en -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@...dhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@...d.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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