linux-kernel - Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

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Message-Id: <20060927.170854.34761243.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:08:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	neilb@...e.de
Cc:	chase.venters@...entec.com, tytso@....edu, torvalds@...l.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de, sipan@...an.org,
	James.Bottomley@...elEye.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

From: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:03:57 +1000

> I don't think that anyone is saying that what Tivo is doing isn't
> wrong.  What is being said is that the license is the wrong place to
> try to stop this sort of behaviour.  It is too broad a brush.

I totally agree.  The poll was a stated position on the gplv3, it
didn't attempt to represent the positions on the core issues of
patents and DRM.

I personally do have a problem with what Tivo does with code
that I wrote, yet I also recognize that a license might not
be the best place to deal with this.
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