Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 | From | Alexandre Oliva <> | Date | Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:44:00 -0300 |
| |
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.
-- 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/
| |