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    SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
    On 6/14/07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
    > Nothing prevents you from taking tivos kernel
    > changes and building your own hardware to run that code on, and as such
    > the spirit of the GPL v2 seems fulfilled.

    Oh, come on: you're not serious, right? Something indeed prevents me
    -- the fact that I'm not a hardware manufacturer, I don't have fabs,
    outsource vendors to provide me w/ designs, ASICs, etc. Nor to I have
    the money to pay one-off prices for various components if they're even
    available in batches that small.

    This argument seems totally disingenuous to me. The GPLv<3 was written
    in a time when the majority of sotware to which the license was
    applied was written for general purpose computers. The "user" was the
    owner of the computer, and Freedom 0 was about letting that user RUN
    modified copies of the software.

    Things have changed a lot; we're surrounded by embedded computers, and
    Freedom 0 seems to strongly imply I should have the right to run
    modified versions of the Free Software I own on the hardware I OWN. Or
    is the future of Open Source that you'll be able to hack on free
    software as long as you work for Intel, Red Hat, TiVO, Google or OSDL?
    Or own many-thousand-$$ fab printer?

    Look, I totally respect Linus' and others' position that the license
    is an inappropriate way to enforce what they feel are hardware design
    decisions, but can we dispense w/ the silly argument that the intent
    of the GPL is fullfilled as long as the user is allowed to modify the
    software where modify means "imagine a world where they'd be able to
    run" it?

    Dave
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