Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753604AbXFNGER (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:04:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751216AbXFNGEB (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:04:01 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:42347 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751724AbXFNGEA (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:04:00 -0400 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Daniel Hazelton , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , 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> <200706131946.15714.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070614021619.381331dc@the-village.bc.nu> <200706132129.52736.dhazelton@enter.net> <9114.1181792906@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:03:40 -0300 In-Reply-To: <9114.1181792906@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (Valdis Kletnieks's message of "Wed\, 13 Jun 2007 23\:48\:26 -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: 986 Lines: 21 On Jun 14, 2007, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > If a company sells you hardware that includes a ROM that contains GPL'ed > software, are they in violation of the GPL if they don't include a ROM burner > in the hardware? Or are ROM burners like compilers, where you have to supply > your own? this requirement does not apply if neither you nor any third party retains the ability to install modified object code on the User Product (for example, the work has been installed in ROM). -- 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/