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

    David Lang
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