Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755403AbXFUDPw (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:15:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752558AbXFUDPq (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:15:46 -0400 Received: from 24-75-174-210-st.chvlva.adelphia.net ([24.75.174.210]:50120 "EHLO sanosuke.troilus.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752471AbXFUDPp (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:15:45 -0400 To: david@lang.hm Cc: davids@webmaster.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <87ejk6qbco.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> From: Michael Poole Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:15:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: (david@lang.hm's message of "Wed\, 20 Jun 2007 20\:06\:17 -0700 \(PDT\)") Message-ID: <87645iq9pc.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: 1044 Lines: 25 david@lang.hm writes: > if the GPL can excercise control over compilations, then if Oracle > were to ship a Oracle Linux live CD that contained the Oracle Database > in the filesystem image, ready to run. then the GPL would be able to > control the Oracle Database code. By copyright law, it could. By its language, it does not. > if the GPL can't do this then it can't control the checksum either. > > again, it's not just the kernel that's part of the checksum on a tivo, > the checksum is over the kernel + initial filesystem, much of which > contains code not covered by the gPL) Again, did you miss where I pointed out that this makes it *worse* for Tivo, because they are tying together -- and making inseparable -- a combination that would otherwise be "mere aggregation"? 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/