Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:39:20 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> >> People talk a lot about TiVo here, but do they the faintest idea of >> how the conversations with TiVo are proceeding? I thought so... > > Oh, if you know something we don't, could you please fill us in? > And who was it who coined the "Tivoization" term, thus putting > TiVo into focus?
what conversations are going on?
Tivo checked years ago and were told that what they were going to do was Ok. I don't know thatanyone is talking too Tivo about anything. they are just screaming about how evil Tivo is at every public opportunity.
David Lang
>> But since the software is good, and moving to another software would be >> costly in various dimentions, the vendor has an incentive to stick with >> the software they have.
but if regulations or other contracts require tamper-resistant hardware they have no choices other then to fork the existing GPLv2 versions or switch to alternate options for anything that switches to GPLv3
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