linux-kernel - Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

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Message-ID: <46717C58.8050501@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:35:20 -0400
From:	Florin Malita <fmalita@...il.com>
To:	Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com>
CC:	Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	debian developer <debiandev@...il.com>, 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

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net> wrote:
>   
>>> When they download the software, they get another copy, and they have
>>> a right to modify that copy.
>>>       
>> But you get the TiVO corporations copy of the software?
>>     
>
> Yes.  The customer gets the copy that TiVO stored in the hard disk in
> the device it sells.  And it's that copy that the customer is entitled
> to modify because TiVO is still able to modify it.
>   

No, by this twisted logic Tivo *cannot* modify that particular copy any 
more than you can. They can modify *another* copy (just like you) and 
they can *replace* the copy in your device with the new version (unlike 
you).

So your entire logical construct does not stand because this is not 
(cannot be) about modifying a particular copy (how would you do that 
anyway? hexedit the binary blob in place?) but about the ability to 
deploy the software on a particular platform.

---
fm

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