Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756280AbXFTNl5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:41:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751315AbXFTNlu (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:41:50 -0400 Received: from caffeine.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:58975 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751266AbXFTNlt (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:41:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:41:48 -0400 To: Alexandre Oliva 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 Message-ID: <20070620134148.GT10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20070614112329.3645c397@the-village.bc.nu> <20070614103846.GA7902@elte.hu> <20070614195517.GA4933@elte.hu> <20070614235004.GA14952@elte.hu> <20070615041149.GA6741@brong.net> <20070615072322.GA7594@brong.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 992 Lines: 24 On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 04:26:34PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > If the bug is in the non-GPLed BIOS, not in the GPLed code, too bad. > One more reason to dislike non-Free Software. Maybe the Tivo only loading signed kernels is a bug in their bios. :) > The freedom the GPL defends is not the freedom to modify and debug the > system, but rather the covered software. > > Now, if you find evidence that the "bug" is actually intentionally put > there to stop you from doing what you wanted with the software, then > there's clearly a violation of the spirit of the license, and you > might even have a case of copyright infringement, but IANAL. There are many interesting bugs out there. Who is to say what was intensional? -- Len Sorensen - 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/