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    SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
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    On Thursday 14 June 2007 18:45:07 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
    > On Jun 14, 2007, "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote:
    > > Alexandre Oliva wrote:
    > >> On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:
    > >>> *AND* the GPL has never been about making the source available to
    > >>> everyone - just to those that get the binaries.
    > >>
    > >> Exactly. Not even to the upstream distributor. That's where Linus'
    > >> theory of tit-for-tat falls apart.
    > >
    > > Nope.
    > >
    > > case 1: Upstream provides source, tivo modifies and distributes it
    > > (to their customers).
    > >
    > > case 2: tivo provides source, end user modifies and distributes it
    > > (possibly to their customers, maybe to friends, possibly even to
    > > upstream).
    > >
    > > See? Tit for tat.
    >
    > case 2': tivo provides source, end user tries to improve it, realizes
    > the hardware won't let him and gives up

    Faulty logic. The hardware doesn't *restrict* you from *MODIFYING* any fscking
    thing.

    DRH

    >
    > Where's the payback, or the payforward?
    >
    > And then, tit-for-tat is about equivalent retaliation, an eye for an
    > eye. Where's the retaliation here?
    >
    > If GPLv2 were tit-for-tat, if someone invents artifices to prevent the
    > user from making the changes the user wants on the software, wouldn't
    > it be "equivalent retaliation" to prevent the perpetrator from making
    > the changes it wants on the software?



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