Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756626AbXFSGEF (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:04:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754219AbXFSGDr (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:03:47 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45452 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754102AbXFSGDq (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:03:46 -0400 To: Daniel Drake Cc: Bron Gondwana , 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: <20070614235004.GA14952@elte.hu> <20070615041149.GA6741@brong.net> <20070615072322.GA7594@brong.net> <20070616021630.GA30660@brong.net> <20070616103130.GD32405@brong.net> <20070616233251.GA17270@brong.net> <46774BD3.6010605@gentoo.org> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:03:15 -0300 In-Reply-To: <46774BD3.6010605@gentoo.org> (Daniel Drake's message of "Mon\, 18 Jun 2007 23\:21\:55 -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: 1147 Lines: 28 On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Drake wrote: > I realise that the latest GPLv3 draft would not pose restrictions > here, as such devices would not be classified as consumer > products. And even if they were, there's always ROM. I don't know whether hardware seals that state "once you break this seal, law prohibits the use of this device with human patients". Then the restriction is not being imposed by the manufacturer, only by law, and this does make lot of a difference as far as software freedom is concerned. But then, law might not find this to be enough. Software patents are not the only stupid law that harms Free Software :-( -- 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/