Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755253AbXFUDlq (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:41:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753494AbXFUDlh (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:41:37 -0400 Received: from dsl081-033-126.lax1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.33.126]:51678 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753302AbXFUDlh (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:41:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:41:49 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Michael Poole cc: davids@webmaster.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 In-Reply-To: <87645iq9pc.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> Message-ID: References: <87ejk6qbco.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> <87645iq9pc.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1345 Lines: 34 On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Michael Poole wrote: > 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. many people (including many lawyers will disagree that it could by copyright law >> 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"? and it makes most distro CD's illegal since they contain code under different incompatible licenses and they make a checksum across the entire CD image. David Lang - 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/