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DateMon, 18 Jun 2007 16:39:20 -0700 (PDT)
From david@lang ...
SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>>
>> People talk a lot about TiVo here, but do they the faintest idea of
>> how the conversations with TiVo are proceeding?  I thought so...
>
> Oh, if you know something we don't, could you please fill us in?
> And who was it who coined the "Tivoization" term, thus putting
> TiVo into focus?

what conversations are going on?

Tivo checked years ago and were told that what they were going to do was 
Ok. I don't know thatanyone is talking too Tivo about anything. they are 
just screaming about how evil Tivo is at every public opportunity.

David Lang

>> But since the software is good, and moving to another software would be 
>> costly in various dimentions, the vendor has an incentive to stick with 
>> the software they have.

but if regulations or other contracts require tamper-resistant hardware 
they have no choices other then to fork the existing GPLv2 versions or 
switch to alternate options for anything that switches to GPLv3

David Lang
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