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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:52:37 +0100
From: Matt Keenan <tank.en.mate@gmail.com>
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To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
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Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 13, 2007, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>>     
>>> So, TiVo includes a copy of Linux in its DVR.  
>>>       
>
>   
>> Stop right there.
>>     
>
>   
>> You seem to make the mistake to think that software is something physical.
>>     
>
> Err, no.  Software, per legal definitions in Brazil, US and elsewhere,
> require some physical support.  That's the hard disk in the TiVO DVR,
> in this case.  I don't see how this matters, though.
>
>   
I'm now intrigued, where are these (Brazilian and US) definitions
stipulated, and under what authority?

Matt

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