On Jun 21, 2007, Jan Harkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 08:23:57PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> It's not like anyone can safely tivoize devices with GPLv2 already,
> So you really didn't pay any attention to anything people told you? Yes. Particularly to what Alan Cox and his legal counsel told me. A single copyright holder able and willing to enforce the license against tivoization is enough. What part of this don't you understand? > The license does not grant the right that you will be able to run the > software on any particular platform or whether it will even work at all. It doesn't grant TiVo the right to distribute the program without corresponding source code. They fail to distribute the source code to the functional signature derived from the kernel binary. Kaboom! As for the right to run the program, I've also explained why in Brazilian copyright law this is a right granted by the license, because the license says that right is unrestricted. Kaboom! > There is no need to take out contributions because the GPLv2 does > not prevent tivoization. Says you (or perhaps you're just repeating what you heard and want to believe). But what did your lawyer say about it? In reference to which jurisdiction? > A mutual compatibility agreement (sublicense) would effectively > terminate any rights granted by the GPLv2, Additional permissions to combine are not permission to relicense. Look at section 13 of GPLv3dd4 and of Affero GPLv3dd1. That's the sort of additional permission I'm talking about here. The same kind of additional permission that GPLed projects that use openssl adopt. -- 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/
