Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752627AbXFNRA6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:00:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751004AbXFNRAv (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:00:51 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:50375 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750862AbXFNRAt convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:00:49 -0400 To: Matt Keenan 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: <466BCBBC.90305@netone.net.tr> <20070610160531.GA12179@kroah.com> <20070612184110.GB7980@kroah.com> <20070613211432.GH10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <4670F3C5.5090602@gmail.com> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:00:21 -0300 In-Reply-To: <4670F3C5.5090602@gmail.com> (Matt Keenan's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 08\:52\:37 +0100") 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=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1503 Lines: 35 On Jun 14, 2007, Matt Keenan wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> 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? http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccIVIL_03/LEIS/L9609.htm LEI Nº 9.609 , DE 19 DE FEVEREIRO DE 1998. Art. 1º Programa de computador é a expressão de um conjunto organizado de instruções em linguagem natural ou codificada, contida em suporte ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ físico de qualquer natureza, de emprego necessário em máquinas ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ automáticas de tratamento da informação, dispositivos, instrumentos ou equipamentos periféricos, baseados em técnica digital ou análoga, para fazê-los funcionar de modo e para fins determinados. -- 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/