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    SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
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    On Jun 14, 2007, lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:

    > They let you have the code and make changes to it,

    Not to the software installed in the device.

    What they do is like an author A who distributes a program to user B
    under a non-Free Software license, and to user C under a Free Software
    license.

    C passes the program on to B under the same license. Now B has two
    copies of the program. One is free, the other is not.

    Except that TiVO had no right to distribute the program under non-Free
    terms in the first place, because it was not the author, and the
    license it had explicitly said it couldn't impose further
    restrictions.

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    Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
    FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
    Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
    Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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