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

Bron Gondwana
2007-06-15T00:48:39Z

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:25:19PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 6/14/07, Dave Neuer <mr.fred.smoothie@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 6/14/07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>> > Nothing prevents you from taking tivos kernel
>> > changes and building your own hardware to run that code on, and as such
>> > the spirit of the GPL v2 seems fulfilled.
>>
>> Oh, come on: you're not serious, right? Something indeed prevents me
>> -- the fact that I'm not a hardware manufacturer, I don't have fabs,
>> outsource vendors to provide me w/ designs, ASICs, etc. Nor to I have
>> the money to pay one-off prices for various components if they're even
>> available in batches that small.
>>
>
> So your objection here is that one needs additional resources to do
> excersise their rights. Well, what about spending time and money to
> get education to be able to do programming work? Being able to
> understand C and hardware, etc is also an additional restriction
> imposed on an average person. Do you advocate that every copy of GPL
> program should be accompanied with an engineer who would explain how
> it all works?

Yes please. Can she be spunky as well? ta.