Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759237AbXFQEUZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:20:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751391AbXFQEUQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:20:16 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:35031 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751011AbXFQEUO (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:20:14 -0400 To: Daniel Hazelton Cc: Bron Gondwana , Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , 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: <20070616233251.GA17270@brong.net> <200706162310.24726.dhazelton@enter.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:19:49 -0300 In-Reply-To: <200706162310.24726.dhazelton@enter.net> (Daniel Hazelton's message of "Sat\, 16 Jun 2007 23\:10\:24 -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: 1246 Lines: 28 On Jun 17, 2007, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > On Saturday 16 June 2007 21:54:56 Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> There may be laws that require certification or limitations on the >> user. Manufacturer giving up the ability to make modifications would >> address this, or *perhaps* arranging for user and manufacturer to each >> hold half of the key needed to run a modification (which might comply >> with the GPLv3dd4 terms, IANAL). > It doesn't. The GPLv3 (dd4) makes that very clear. See the quote below. You left out the relevant bit: this requirement does not apply if neither you nor any third party retains the ability to install modified object code on the User Product (for example, the work has been installed in ROM). -- 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/