Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753903AbXFNVZb (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:25:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753807AbXFNVZW (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:25:22 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.183]:19567 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753340AbXFNVZU (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:25:20 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qYARWI1HqOzoB2ZsLpfEwFHWKNPtnHhWcIyYjC8nMbYpZ8+tiNCVjyjLJMVWvgDWJN1+xWBF2sTkruY1rP3T6Fd0Qxe/92gAiBZmooGiMvAWKOtcars9cyhg/jFtYjqb/iNp4wwipCSssrt+uZVSspERitWEBM/VahpBGObZ7CY= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:25:19 -0400 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" To: "Dave Neuer" Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Cc: "Lennart Sorensen" , "Alexandre Oliva" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Greg KH" , "debian developer" , "david@lang.hm" , "Tarkan Erimer" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" , mingo@elte.hu In-Reply-To: <161717d50706141324y303f3d89n54447b7cb387979c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070612184110.GB7980@kroah.com> <20070613211432.GH10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070614175305.GI10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <161717d50706141324y303f3d89n54447b7cb387979c@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1299 Lines: 28 On 6/14/07, Dave Neuer wrote: > On 6/14/07, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Nothing prevents you from taking tivos kernel > > changes and building your own hardware to run that code on, and as such > > the spirit of the GPL v2 seems fulfilled. > > Oh, come on: you're not serious, right? Something indeed prevents me > -- the fact that I'm not a hardware manufacturer, I don't have fabs, > outsource vendors to provide me w/ designs, ASICs, etc. Nor to I have > the money to pay one-off prices for various components if they're even > available in batches that small. > So your objection here is that one needs additional resources to do excersise their rights. Well, what about spending time and money to get education to be able to do programming work? Being able to understand C and hardware, etc is also an additional restriction imposed on an average person. Do you advocate that every copy of GPL program should be accompanied with an engineer who would explain how it all works? -- Dmitry - 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/