Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757445AbXFTSTi (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:19:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753293AbXFTSTb (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:19:31 -0400 Received: from 24-75-174-210-st.chvlva.adelphia.net ([24.75.174.210]:47233 "EHLO sanosuke.troilus.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753053AbXFTSTb (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:19:31 -0400 To: "Tomas Neme" Cc: "Linux-Kernel\@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <9a8748490706201034j43139301w5a18c172d688c724@mail.gmail.com> <2e6659dd0706201110x20fa5c28n5d6fc094e9f5c832@mail.gmail.com> From: Michael Poole Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:19:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2e6659dd0706201110x20fa5c28n5d6fc094e9f5c832@mail.gmail.com> (Tomas Neme's message of "Wed\, 20 Jun 2007 15\:10\:37 -0300") Message-ID: <871wg6trnx.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (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: 941 Lines: 20 Tomas Neme writes: > I have been following this discussion for the last week or so, and > what I haven't been able to figure out is what the hell is the big > deal with TiVO doing whatever they want to with their stupid design. > They made a design, they build a machine, they sell it as is, and > provide source code for GPL'ed software... what's your problem? It's simple: they don't provide _complete_ source code. They keep the source code for the part of their Linux kernel images that provides the functionality "runs on Tivo DVRs". The GPL requires that distributors of binary versions provide complete source code, not just the parts of source code that are convenient. Michael Poole - 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/