Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762916AbXFTULB (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:11:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757947AbXFTUKy (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:10:54 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:60983 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757209AbXFTUKx (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:10:53 -0400 To: Manu Abraham Cc: Alan Cox , Lennart Sorensen , Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , debian developer , "david\@lang.hm" , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <20070610160531.GA12179@kroah.com> <20070612184110.GB7980@kroah.com> <20070613211432.GH10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070614175305.GI10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <4677F616.3080406@gmail.com> <20070619171921.54811314@the-village.bc.nu> <46790AEB.2070505@gmail.com> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:08:42 -0300 In-Reply-To: <46790AEB.2070505@gmail.com> (Manu Abraham's message of "Wed\, 20 Jun 2007 15\:09\:31 +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: 1363 Lines: 32 On Jun 20, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >>> Well, it is not Tivo alone -- look at http://aminocom.com/ for an >>> example. If you want the kernel sources pay USD 50k and we will provide >>> the kernel sources, was their attitude. >> >> GPLv2 deals with that case, and they can (and should) be sued for it >> [except that US copyright law is designed for large music companies not >> people] > Their argument was that the mentioned sources contain propreitary > closed stuff from IBM/AMCC for the PPC 405/440 and or for the NXP > (MIPS based) chips. As you probably know, this is not a valid excuse to distribute the software under conditions that disrespect its license. It doesn't mean you can force them to give you the source code, it only means the copyright holder can stop them from distributing the software this way. -- 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/