Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758497AbXFODqK (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:46:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754187AbXFODp5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:45:57 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:38201 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753640AbXFODp4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:45:56 -0400 To: Florin Malita 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: <200706140305.50095.dhazelton@enter.net> <46717C58.8050501@gmail.com> <4671A528.5040300@gmail.com> <20070614234507.GA3860@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <20070615023944.GC3760@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:44:40 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20070615023944.GC3760@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> (Bill Nottingham's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 22\:39\:44 -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: 1284 Lines: 27 On Jun 14, 2007, Bill Nottingham wrote: > OK. Let's take this to the simple and logical conclusion. A signed > filesystem image containing both GPL and non-GPL code. From your > point A, this is a derived work. I claim the signature is derived from the GPLed bits, yes. Whether that's a derived work, in the legal sense, I'm not qualified to say. And I claim that, in the case of TiVO, it is not only a functional piece of the system that's derived from GPLed code and missing the corresponding sources, but also it's being used to impose restrictions on the exercise of the freedoms that the GPL is designed to protect. And these conditions are what make it a bad thing, and that deviate, if not from the legal conditions, at least from the spirit of the license. -- 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/