Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:56:33 +0400 | From | Manu Abraham <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 07:28:22PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: >> Well, it is not Tivo alone -- look at http://aminocom.com/ for an >> example. If you want the kernel sources pay USD 50k and we will provide >> the kernel sources, was their attitude. > > Hmm, set top boxes are often rented from the cable company rather than > sold. Stupid grey area for sure. At least tivo does give you the > sources, without demanding more money. Rather big difference.
I am not talking about the rented aspect, since these STB's are usually sold rather than rented.
>> Well, it is not Tivo alone, a large chunk of the vendors do that. The >> vendors who actually do it the clean way are just few and can be counted >> very easily. > > Well at least where I work we don't try to lock down the hardware, we do > contribute our changes and bug fixes to upstream when it makes sense > (and where our changes wouldn't make sense for upstream, they are still > clearly included with the sources we have.) If a customer wants a copy > of the sources, they will get a nice DVD, although strangely none have > asked for one yet.
Providing the changes back itself is a great thing altogether.
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