Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932998AbXFRVgh (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:36:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764763AbXFRVg1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:36:27 -0400 Received: from dsl081-033-126.lax1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.33.126]:48977 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762608AbXFRVg0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:36:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:36:21 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Alexandre Oliva cc: David Schwartz , "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1039 Lines: 31 On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 18, 2007, "David Schwartz" wrote: > >>>> Sure, and you use the hardware to stop me from modifying the >>>> Linux on your >>>> laptop. > >>> Do I? How so? > >> Any number of ways. For example, you probably don't connect the serial ports >> to a device I have access to. > > But you're not the user of the software on my laptop. I am. ahh, but by your own argument you aren't the software on your laptop is owned by people like Linus, Al Viro, David M, Alan Cox, etc. they have the right to put a license on that software that would require you to give them access to your hardware (after all, that's the argument that you are useing to justify requireing Tivo to give you access to their hardware) David Lang - 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/