Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755301AbXFNRil (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:38:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754886AbXFNRia (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:38:30 -0400 Received: from ag-out-0708.google.com ([72.14.246.244]:34683 "EHLO ag-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754804AbXFNRi3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:38:29 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=asdeYeSBti2qCZLCFSmn6fwxe0nHo7EXvAinwioCzagDene+WDAIZ3RSx+FoMLqevD+U/05KwYNIXvLGjs2vMBBUxjcY9zG0/LGpM0La40YLyUZtTqWA9xsZOhcqp3hrYXYPpAi2Dfux8qRlnhXBRaWuyHsx/+m2vNhIPKSC1OY= Message-ID: <46717C58.8050501@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:35:20 -0400 From: Florin Malita User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexandre Oliva CC: Daniel Hazelton , Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , 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> <200706140305.50095.dhazelton@enter.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1214 Lines: 32 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > >>> When they download the software, they get another copy, and they have >>> a right to modify that copy. >>> >> But you get the TiVO corporations copy of the software? >> > > Yes. The customer gets the copy that TiVO stored in the hard disk in > the device it sells. And it's that copy that the customer is entitled > to modify because TiVO is still able to modify it. > No, by this twisted logic Tivo *cannot* modify that particular copy any more than you can. They can modify *another* copy (just like you) and they can *replace* the copy in your device with the new version (unlike you). So your entire logical construct does not stand because this is not (cannot be) about modifying a particular copy (how would you do that anyway? hexedit the binary blob in place?) but about the ability to deploy the software on a particular platform. --- fm - 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/