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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706202026120.31603@asgard.lang.hm> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:41:49 -0700 (PDT) From: david@...g.hm To: Michael Poole <mdpoole@...ilus.org> cc: davids@...master.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Michael Poole wrote: > david@...g.hm writes: > >> if the GPL can excercise control over compilations, then if Oracle >> were to ship a Oracle Linux live CD that contained the Oracle Database >> in the filesystem image, ready to run. then the GPL would be able to >> control the Oracle Database code. > > By copyright law, it could. By its language, it does not. many people (including many lawyers will disagree that it could by copyright law >> if the GPL can't do this then it can't control the checksum either. >> >> again, it's not just the kernel that's part of the checksum on a tivo, >> the checksum is over the kernel + initial filesystem, much of which >> contains code not covered by the gPL) > > Again, did you miss where I pointed out that this makes it *worse* for > Tivo, because they are tying together -- and making inseparable -- a > combination that would otherwise be "mere aggregation"? and it makes most distro CD's illegal since they contain code under different incompatible licenses and they make a checksum across the entire CD image. David Lang - 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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