Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755470AbXFOT1Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:27:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752946AbXFOT1O (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:27:14 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:32990 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752569AbXFOT1M (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:27:12 -0400 To: Bron Gondwana Cc: Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Daniel Hazelton , Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , debian developer , david@lang.hm, Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <200706132304.21984.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070614112329.3645c397@the-village.bc.nu> <20070614103846.GA7902@elte.hu> <20070614195517.GA4933@elte.hu> <20070614235004.GA14952@elte.hu> <20070615041149.GA6741@brong.net> <20070615072322.GA7594@brong.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:26:34 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20070615072322.GA7594@brong.net> (Bron Gondwana's message of "Fri\, 15 Jun 2007 17\:23\:22 +1000") 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: 1313 Lines: 29 On Jun 15, 2007, Bron Gondwana wrote: > What happens if you're debugging something you think is a bug in the > Linux kernel and then you run bang into some interactions that make you > think the bug might be in the BIOS instead. > have denied your freedom to modify and debug the system they sold you If the bug is in the non-GPLed BIOS, not in the GPLed code, too bad. One more reason to dislike non-Free Software. The freedom the GPL defends is not the freedom to modify and debug the system, but rather the covered software. Now, if you find evidence that the "bug" is actually intentionally put there to stop you from doing what you wanted with the software, then there's clearly a violation of the spirit of the license, and you might even have a case of copyright infringement, but IANAL. -- 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/