Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754797AbXFTU4g (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:56:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754267AbXFTU4X (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:56:23 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:48225 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754175AbXFTU4V (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:56:21 -0400 To: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Cc: David Schwartz , "Linux-Kernel\@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <20070620140443.GV10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:55:00 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20070620140443.GV10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (Lennart Sorensen's message of "Wed\, 20 Jun 2007 10\:04\:43 -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: 1383 Lines: 30 On Jun 20, 2007, lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 06:12:57PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> Aah, good question. Here's what the draft says about this: >> >> Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no >> transfer of a copy, is not conveying. >> >> The requirements as to "installation information" apply to conveying >> the program along with a user product. > So if I go use a computer running some GPL software, and I copy the > contents of /bin to a CD and bring it home, does the owner of the > machine now owe me a copy of the GPL sources? According to one of the rationales of GPLv3, it is understood that lending someone a computer for a short period of time does not amount to conveying the software in it. I assume this is backed by strong legal reasoning I won't pretend to know or understand. IANAL. -- 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/