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    SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
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    On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:

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

    Ok, lemme try again:

    case 2'': tivo provides source, end user tries to improve it, realizes
    the hardware won't let him use the result of his efforts, and gives up

    > On Thursday 14 June 2007 18:45:07 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
    >> 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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    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}
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