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SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
On 2007-06-19 20:23:00, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> If you take the Wikipedia definition of Tivoization, you'll see it's
> about copyleft software only, and no law mandates the use of copyleft
> software. There's no end to bad laws, but a law that mandated the use
> of copyleft (=> free) software and at the same time prohibited
> modifications by the user would be a very contradictory one.

You're absolutely right...

Nobody forces us to use Linux in the credit-card terminals I'm currently
working on; of course we could have selected a proprietary solution (and
we would be forced to, were the Linux kernel and/or certain crucial
libraries or utilities GPLv3 only).

Only, your statement above seems to run counter to your previous claims
that the "anti-tivoisation" provisions of GPLv3 would bring _more_
developers to copyleft software.

So which one is it?

Cheers
Anders
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