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

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Message-ID: <orwsxytkgr.fsf@oliva.athome.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
Date:	Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:55:00 -0300
From:	Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com>
To:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
Cc:	David Schwartz <davids@...master.com>,
	"Linux-Kernel\@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

On Jun 20, 2007, lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 06:12:57PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> Aah, good question.  Here's what the draft says about this:
>> 
>> Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no
>> transfer of a copy, is not conveying.
>> 
>> The requirements as to "installation information" apply to conveying
>> the program along with a user product.

> So if I go use a computer running some GPL software, and I copy the
> contents of /bin to a CD and bring it home, does the owner of the
> machine now owe me a copy of the GPL sources?

According to one of the rationales of GPLv3, it is understood that
lending someone a computer for a short period of time does not amount
to conveying the software in it.  I assume this is backed by strong
legal reasoning I won't pretend to know or understand.  IANAL.

-- 
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