Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756031AbXFNUX0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:23:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751773AbXFNUXS (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:23:18 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45456 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752849AbXFNUXR (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:23:17 -0400 To: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Cc: Linus Torvalds , 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: <20070610160531.GA12179@kroah.com> <20070612184110.GB7980@kroah.com> <20070613211432.GH10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070614175305.GI10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:32:08 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20070614175305.GI10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (Lennart Sorensen's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 13\:53\:05 -0400") 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: 1148 Lines: 28 On Jun 14, 2007, lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > They let you have the code and make changes to it, Not to the software installed in the device. What they do is like an author A who distributes a program to user B under a non-Free Software license, and to user C under a Free Software license. C passes the program on to B under the same license. Now B has two copies of the program. One is free, the other is not. Except that TiVO had no right to distribute the program under non-Free terms in the first place, because it was not the author, and the license it had explicitly said it couldn't impose further restrictions. -- 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/