Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754105AbXFNGuF (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:50:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752235AbXFNGtz (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:49:55 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:57215 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752230AbXFNGty (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:49:54 -0400 To: Bongani Hlope Cc: Linus Torvalds , Lennart Sorensen , 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: <200706140215.54179.bhlope@mweb.co.za> <200706140819.42721.bhlope@mweb.co.za> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:49:36 -0300 In-Reply-To: <200706140819.42721.bhlope@mweb.co.za> (Bongani Hlope's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 08\:19\:42 +0200") 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: 1304 Lines: 28 On Jun 14, 2007, Bongani Hlope wrote: > On Thursday 14 June 2007 02:55:52 Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> While TiVo retains the ability to replace, upgrade, fix, break or make >> any other change in the GPLed software in the device, it ought to pass >> it on to its customers. > So according to your logic, I can go to Sharp's website and download the GPL > source code for their Zaurus. But I don't own a Sharp Zaurus; to keep with > your interpretation of the spirit of GPL, they have to give me a Zaurus so > that I can run my modifications on the same hardware? Sharp can modify the copy of the code in your Zaurus as much as you do, when you don't have a Zaurus. I don't see how you can get to the conclusion that they have to give you a Zaurus, when all you're getting is software. -- 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/