On Jun 15, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You have repeatedly stated that if a system runs a GPL'd system then > all rights to the system that the manufacturer has *must* be passed > on to the end-user.
Not really, not to the entire system. The spirit is not clear in this regard, when it talks about "all rights", but I understand it means "all rights related with the program", i.e., "you must let others do with the program everything that you can". > Before you answer - this question is *NOT* based on any interpretation or > reading of the GPLv3. What it is based on is statements you have repeatedly > made. So no claims this being already covered, and no claims that this isn't > a situation covered by the GPLv3. Sorry that I have been unclear. This just goes to show that what we write isn't always the whole story, and quite often intent doesn't shine through the words. While legal terms have a stronger demand for clarity and non-ambiguity, intent and other less-formal forms of communication often depend on a lot of context for correct interpretation. And then, if multiple interpretations are possible, the only resort is to ask the author and hope s/he still remembers what s/he meant. -- 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/
