To: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, debian developer <debiandev@gmail.com>,
       david@lang.hm, Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@netone.net.tr>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
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From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:27:04 -0300
In-Reply-To: <46717C58.8050501@gmail.com> (Florin Malita's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 13\:35\:20 -0400")
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On Jun 14, 2007, Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> 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).

Again, replacing is one form of modification.

What do you think you do when you save a modified source file in your
editor?

-- 
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}
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