Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:41:49 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Michael Poole wrote:
> david@lang.hm writes: > >> if the GPL can excercise control over compilations, then if Oracle >> were to ship a Oracle Linux live CD that contained the Oracle Database >> in the filesystem image, ready to run. then the GPL would be able to >> control the Oracle Database code. > > By copyright law, it could. By its language, it does not.
many people (including many lawyers will disagree that it could by copyright law
>> if the GPL can't do this then it can't control the checksum either. >> >> again, it's not just the kernel that's part of the checksum on a tivo, >> the checksum is over the kernel + initial filesystem, much of which >> contains code not covered by the gPL) > > Again, did you miss where I pointed out that this makes it *worse* for > Tivo, because they are tying together -- and making inseparable -- a > combination that would otherwise be "mere aggregation"?
and it makes most distro CD's illegal since they contain code under different incompatible licenses and they make a checksum across the entire CD image.
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