> FW> GPLv3 makes it pretty clear that Dreamhost can take your rights away > > So all that effort of writing Free Software and the result is there is > Johnny, sitting at the shell prompt, unable to see the source code > to anything behind it if they decide to close it.
Yes, I find the bring-yourself-into-slavery clause extremely discomforting, too: | You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not | convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains | in force. You may convey covered works to others for the sole purpose | of having them make modifications exclusively for you, or provide you | with facilities for running those works, provided that you comply with | the terms of this License in conveying all material for which you do | not control copyright. Those thus making or running the covered works | for you must do so exclusively on your behalf, under your direction | and control, on terms that prohibit them from making any copies of | your copyrighted material outside their relationship with you. This was put into the license at the very last moment. Maybe it does not apply to the Dreamhost case, but I think it does apply to appliances like the Tivo, and especially to customer premises equipment given to you by our ISP (which are a common source of alleged GPLv2 violations). Tivo (or the ISP) only needs to make sure that there's a contract that stipulates that you provide electrical power and connectivity to the device, so you perform a service for them, and have no right to the source code under the GPLv3, unless you are explicitly granted access to the binaries. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
