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    SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
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    On Jun 14, 2007, Bongani Hlope <bhlope@mweb.co.za> wrote:

    > On Thursday 14 June 2007 02:55:52 Alexandre Oliva wrote:

    >> While TiVo retains the ability to replace, upgrade, fix, break or make
    >> any other change in the GPLed software in the device, it ought to pass
    >> it on to its customers.

    > So according to your logic, I can go to Sharp's website and download the GPL
    > source code for their Zaurus. But I don't own a Sharp Zaurus; to keep with
    > your interpretation of the spirit of GPL, they have to give me a Zaurus so
    > that I can run my modifications on the same hardware?

    Sharp can modify the copy of the code in your Zaurus as much as you
    do, when you don't have a Zaurus. I don't see how you can get to the
    conclusion that they have to give you a Zaurus, when all you're
    getting is software.

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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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