Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Schwartz" <> | Subject | RE: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 | Date | Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:59:24 -0700 |
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> > But you're not the user of the software on my laptop. I am.
> ahh, but by your own argument you aren't
Let's not confuse owner with user and let's not confuse ownership of copyrights with ownership of particular copies.
> the software on your laptop is owned by people like Linus, Al Viro, David > M, Alan Cox, etc.
No. The copyright to the software is owned by those people. But particular copies of copyrighted items can be owned by other people.
> they have the right to put a license on that software that would require > you to give them access to your hardware (after all, that's the argument > that you are useing to justify requireing Tivo to give you access > to their hardware)
That's right, they do have that right so long as they condition it on the exercise of something I could not do without their permission. (Ignoring for the moment the fact that the software is a derivative work of GPL'd software.)
I'm not sure whether you think this disagrees with or refutes anything I've said.
DS
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