Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755139AbXFTVAr (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:00:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752431AbXFTVAk (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:00:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:49473 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751493AbXFTVAi (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:00:38 -0400 To: Andrew McKay Cc: Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Al Viro , Bernd Schmidt , Ingo Molnar , Daniel Hazelton , 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: <20070614195517.GA4933@elte.hu> <20070614235004.GA14952@elte.hu> <20070615011012.6c09066e@the-village.bc.nu> <20070615012623.GA25189@elte.hu> <20070615101007.0cbfd078@the-village.bc.nu> <4673CA7C.5040207@t-online.de> <20070616181902.GB21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> <4679557C.5080907@iders.ca> <20070620175627.319a6c55@the-village.bc.nu> <46797C52.4020907@iders.ca> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:59:42 -0300 In-Reply-To: <46797C52.4020907@iders.ca> (Andrew McKay's message of "Wed\, 20 Jun 2007 14\:13\:22 -0500") 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: 847 Lines: 19 On Jun 20, 2007, Andrew McKay wrote: > However, I don't see how this would ever require a company like Tivo > or Mastercard to have their networks play nice with a unit that has > been modified by the end user, potentially opening up some serious > security holes. Which is why the GPLv3 doesn't make the requirement that you stated. -- 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/