Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:08:54 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:03:57 +1000

> I don't think that anyone is saying that what Tivo is doing isn't
> wrong.  What is being said is that the license is the wrong place to
> try to stop this sort of behaviour.  It is too broad a brush.

I totally agree.  The poll was a stated position on the gplv3, it
didn't attempt to represent the positions on the core issues of
patents and DRM.

I personally do have a problem with what Tivo does with code
that I wrote, yet I also recognize that a license might not
be the best place to deal with this.
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