Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758480AbXFOAsj (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:48:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754857AbXFOAsT (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:48:19 -0400 Received: from paragon.brong.net ([66.232.154.163]:47781 "EHLO paragon.brong.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753989AbXFOAsR (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:48:17 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:19:10 +1000 From: Bron Gondwana To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Dave Neuer , 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 Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Message-ID: <20070615001910.GD5268@brong.net> References: <20070612184110.GB7980@kroah.com> <20070613211432.GH10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070614175305.GI10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <161717d50706141324y303f3d89n54447b7cb387979c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: brong.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1426 Lines: 28 On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:25:19PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > 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? Yes please. Can she be spunky as well? ta. - 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/