Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3? | From | Alexandre Oliva <> | Date | Sun, 01 Jul 2007 05:48:26 -0300 |
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On Jun 28, 2007, Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br> wrote:
> On Jun 28, 2007, Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br> wrote: >> So, let's narrow the scenario to: tivoized machine downloads binary >> from protected site, refrains from downloading sources that it could >> download, user can still access and copy the binaries, but can't >> obtain the sources because the machine opted not to get them.
>> Now, the user can't distribute the binaries, because doing so without >> being able to get the sources to pass them on would be copyright >> infringement. Would a court see this as a restriction on distribution >> imposed by the distributor? Or by the copyright holder?
> I'm not sure my point was clear (not even to myself), so let me try to > clarify with a slightly different scenario.
http://fsfla.org/svnwiki/blogs/lxo/2007-07-01-gplv3-tivo-and-linux.en
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