On Jun 14, 2007, Bongani Hlope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 14 June 2007 02:55:52 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> While TiVo retains the ability to replace, upgrade, fix, break or make >> any other change in the GPLed software in the device, it ought to pass >> it on to its customers. > So according to your logic, I can go to Sharp's website and download the GPL > source code for their Zaurus. But I don't own a Sharp Zaurus; to keep with > your interpretation of the spirit of GPL, they have to give me a Zaurus so > that I can run my modifications on the same hardware? Sharp can modify the copy of the code in your Zaurus as much as you do, when you don't have a Zaurus. I don't see how you can get to the conclusion that they have to give you a Zaurus, when all you're getting is software. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
