On Jun 16, 2007, Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 23:29 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> Tivo has two choices: either it gives >> users the content they want to watch, or it goes out of business. Is >> that legitimate enough of a reason to restrict the hardware?
> Can I submit that they could just rent the use of their machines? I don't think this would escape the wording of section 6 in GPLv3dd4: [...] User Product is transferred to the recipient in perpetuity or for a fixed term (regardless of how the transaction is characterized), [...] and IMHO that's as it should be to defend the freedoms of the user. -- 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/
