Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753956AbXFNCyt (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:54:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752012AbXFNCym (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:54:42 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33145 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751938AbXFNCyl (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:54:41 -0400 To: Daniel Hazelton Cc: Adrian Bunk , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Greg KH , debian developer , david@lang.hm, Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <200706132101.28330.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070614012401.GN3588@stusta.de> <200706132140.13490.dhazelton@enter.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:53:16 -0300 In-Reply-To: <200706132140.13490.dhazelton@enter.net> (Daniel Hazelton's message of "Wed\, 13 Jun 2007 21\:40\:13 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1553 Lines: 39 On Jun 13, 2007, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > Either a device is distributed, like the common PC, that is designed > for the user to change and update the software on, or, like the PS2 > it isn't designed for that. Have you ever installed GNU/Linux on a PC "Designed for Microsoft Windows"? How dare you? ;-) > If, OTOH, the hardware was never meant for the end-user to install custom > versions of the software on, then while the signing keys are still > *technically* part of the source, in practice they are not. Why? Because in > most of those cases the end-user isn't granted the right to install and run > custom binaries on the hardware. And distributing the GPLed software under this restriction is quite likely copyright infringement. > I know this. As I said, I doubt that anyone who tried this in > America would have the success he has had. On Wednesday 13 June 2007 21:24:01 Adrian Bunk wrote: >> Are you an idiot, or do you just choose to ignore all proof that >> doesn't fit your preconceived beliefs? ;-) :-P :-D -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/