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    SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
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    On Jun 16, 2007, Tim Post <tim.post@netkinetics.net> wrote:

    > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 23:29 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
    >> Tivo has two choices: either it gives
    >> users the content they want to watch, or it goes out of business. Is
    >> that legitimate enough of a reason to restrict the hardware?

    > Can I submit that they could just rent the use of their machines?

    I don't think this would escape the wording of section 6 in GPLv3dd4:

    [...] User Product is transferred to the recipient in perpetuity or
    for a fixed term (regardless of how the transaction is
    characterized), [...]

    and IMHO that's as it should be to defend the freedoms of the user.

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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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