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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:49:36 -0300 From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com> To: Bongani Hlope <bhlope@...b.co.za> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, debian developer <debiandev@...il.com>, "david\@lang.hm" <david@...g.hm>, Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@...one.net.tr>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, mingo@...e.hu Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 On Jun 14, 2007, Bongani Hlope <bhlope@...b.co.za> wrote: > On Thursday 14 June 2007 02:55:52 Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> While TiVo retains the ability to replace, upgrade, fix, break or make >> any other change in the GPLed software in the device, it ought to pass >> it on to its customers. > So according to your logic, I can go to Sharp's website and download the GPL > source code for their Zaurus. But I don't own a Sharp Zaurus; to keep with > your interpretation of the spirit of GPL, they have to give me a Zaurus so > that I can run my modifications on the same hardware? Sharp can modify the copy of the code in your Zaurus as much as you do, when you don't have a Zaurus. I don't see how you can get to the conclusion that they have to give you a Zaurus, when all you're getting is software. -- 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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