Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:33:34 -0400 | From | "Dave Neuer" <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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On 6/14/07, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/14/07, Dave Neuer <mr.fred.smoothie@pobox.com> wrote: > > On 6/14/07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > > > Nothing prevents you from taking tivos kernel > > > changes and building your own hardware to run that code on, and as such > > > the spirit of the GPL v2 seems fulfilled. > > > > Oh, come on: you're not serious, right? Something indeed prevents me > > -- the fact that I'm not a hardware manufacturer, I don't have fabs, > > outsource vendors to provide me w/ designs, ASICs, etc. Nor to I have > > the money to pay one-off prices for various components if they're even > > available in batches that small. > > > > So your objection here is that one needs additional resources to do > excersise their rights. Well, what about spending time and money to > get education to be able to do programming work?
Come on, again w/ the bullshit. TiVO does not try to prevent me from getting a CS degree, or buying a C reference. They _do_ prevent me from running modified code on my TiVO box.
> Being able to > understand C and hardware, etc is also an additional restriction > imposed on an average person.
Not imposed by TiVO.
> Do you advocate that every copy of GPL > program should be accompanied with an engineer who would explain how > it all works?
No, just that hardware vendors not lock me out of _my_ hardware if they've benefitted from code which was intended to be modifiable by end users.
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