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    SubjectRE: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
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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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