Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 | From | Alexandre Oliva <> | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:39:50 -0300 |
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On Jun 15, 2007, "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15/06/07, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote: >> On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote: >> >> > Faulty logic. The hardware doesn't *restrict* you from *MODIFYING* >> > any fscking thing.
>> case 2'': tivo provides source, end user tries to improve it, realizes >> the hardware won't let him use the result of his efforts, and gives up
> So? The user still has the source and is free to use that in other > GPLv2 projects, that's the point.
This point of yours is a distraction from the argument in this sub-thread.
These cases were Chris Friesen's attempt to show that GPLv2 was tit-for-tat, and case 2'' shows it isn't, at least not in the sense he tried to picture it:
On Jun 14, 2007, "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> That's where Linus' theory of tit-for-tat falls apart.
> Nope.
> case 1: Upstream provides source, tivo modifies and distributes it > (to their customers).
> case 2: tivo provides source, end user modifies and distributes it > (possibly to their customers, maybe to friends, possibly even to > upstream).
> See? Tit for tat.
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