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

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Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:04:03 -0300
From:	Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com>
To:	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	"Daniel Hazelton" <dhazelton@...er.net>,
	"Bongani Hlope" <bhlope@...b.co.za>,
	"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, "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> wrote:

> So, with regard to TIVO, why are you saying that GPL shoudl affect
> their hardware

I'm not.

I'm just saying that TiVO, as a licensee of Linux, agreed that it
wouldn't impose further restrictions on recipients of Linux on the
exercise of the rights granted by the license.

So, just like it couldn't use a patent to stop people from modifying
or sharing Linux, it can't use the hardware to do that.

And if they fail to supply portions of the functional source code in
order to prevent modified versions to run, they are infringing the
spirit and quite possibly the letter of the license.

-- 
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}
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