[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > if the GPL can excercise control over compilations, then if Oracle > were to ship a Oracle Linux live CD that contained the Oracle Database > in the filesystem image, ready to run. then the GPL would be able to > control the Oracle Database code.
By copyright law, it could. By its language, it does not. > if the GPL can't do this then it can't control the checksum either. > > again, it's not just the kernel that's part of the checksum on a tivo, > the checksum is over the kernel + initial filesystem, much of which > contains code not covered by the gPL) Again, did you miss where I pointed out that this makes it *worse* for Tivo, because they are tying together -- and making inseparable -- a combination that would otherwise be "mere aggregation"? Michael Poole - 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/
