Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763291AbXFSBWd (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:22:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758824AbXFSBWX (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:22:23 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:35280 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758912AbXFSBWW (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:22:22 -0400 To: david@lang.hm Cc: Anders Larsen , Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Daniel Hazelton , Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , debian developer , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <1182156596l.29108l.0l@ecxwww1.reanet.de> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:21:50 -0300 In-Reply-To: (david@lang.hm's message of "Mon\, 18 Jun 2007 14\:52\:19 -0700 \(PDT\)") 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: 1422 Lines: 34 On Jun 18, 2007, david@lang.hm wrote: > Ok, next question, could you do the same thing if you used a CD > instead of a ROM? Yes, I believe the very same reasoning applies. > what makes a blob delivered via a network inherently different from > the same blob delivered via a plugin ROM or CD? Err... Nothing, really, except that delivery over the network doesn't even have a physical support that you might wish you could possibly modify but Mother Nature won't let you. What could make a difference, as far as GPLv3 is concerned, is that conveyance over the network might be considered more easily separate from the transaction involving the user product than receiving the CD or the ROM chip along with it. But then, a lot of it would depend on the the precise contractual terms surrounding the transference of the user product, on intent and how that's interpreted by courts, and on how good a justice money can buy ;-) -- 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/