Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755542AbXFPDoj (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:44:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752262AbXFPDob (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:44:31 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:60854 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752231AbXFPDob (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:44:31 -0400 To: Tim Post 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> <20070615113123.GA6269@elte.hu> <20070615212905.GB4996@elte.hu> <1181962902.21803.513.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:44:00 -0300 In-Reply-To: <1181962902.21803.513.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Tim Post's message of "Sat\, 16 Jun 2007 11\:01\:42 +0800") 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: 1150 Lines: 27 On Jun 16, 2007, Tim Post wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 23:29 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> Tivo has two choices: either it gives >> users the content they want to watch, or it goes out of business. Is >> that legitimate enough of a reason to restrict the hardware? > Can I submit that they could just rent the use of their machines? I don't think this would escape the wording of section 6 in GPLv3dd4: [...] User Product is transferred to the recipient in perpetuity or for a fixed term (regardless of how the transaction is characterized), [...] and IMHO that's as it should be to defend the freedoms of the user. -- 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/