Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754880AbXFUEYg (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:24:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751314AbXFUEY2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:24:28 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:57951 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751242AbXFUEY1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:24:27 -0400 To: "Tomas Neme" Cc: "Andrew McKay" , "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: <4679557C.5080907@iders.ca> <20070620175627.319a6c55@the-village.bc.nu> <46797C52.4020907@iders.ca> <2e6659dd0706201414g3a6af30cvfb50720962e9dc1c@mail.gmail.com> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:23:01 -0300 In-Reply-To: <2e6659dd0706201414g3a6af30cvfb50720962e9dc1c@mail.gmail.com> (Tomas Neme's message of "Wed\, 20 Jun 2007 18\:14\:32 -0300") 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: 1501 Lines: 32 On Jun 20, 2007, "Tomas Neme" 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. > Why, if you let user-compiled kernels to run in a TiVo, it might be > modified so the TiVo can be used to pirate-copy protected content, And then the user who uses such features in ways not permitted by the copyright holders are committing a crime. They can be prosecuted by the copyright holders and convicted of the crime. That TiVo can somehow become liable for this just shows how broken the legal system in the US is. It's like making a knife manufacturer liable for a killing using a knife they made, just because the knife didn't have technical measures intended to prevent the knife from being used to kill people. -- 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/