On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 03:20:39PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 18, 2007, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From the very _beginning_ of the v3 process the kernel developers > > have showed their objection to that section of the license, and we > > were told, to our face, with no uncertian terms, that it was going > > to stay, in one form or another, no matter what we thought or said > > about it. > > This sounds about right. > > > So, why would we want to waste our time filling out web forms after > > that? > > If you're adamantly favorable to permitting any form of Tivoization > whatsoever, don't bother.
For the record, I completely feel that what Tivo did was both legally correct[1], and the correct thing to do for their system, and would fight _very_ hard any attempt to change the Linux kernel's license that would prevent this usage model. So I will not bother anymore. greg k-h [1] The FSF lawyers also agree with this. - 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/
