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

Florin Malita
2007-06-14T17:38:41Z

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:
>
>>> When they download the software, they get another copy, and they have
>>> a right to modify that copy.
>>>
>> But you get the TiVO corporations copy of the software?
>>
>
> Yes. The customer gets the copy that TiVO stored in the hard disk in
> the device it sells. And it's that copy that the customer is entitled
> to modify because TiVO is still able to modify it.
>

No, by this twisted logic Tivo *cannot* modify that particular copy any
more than you can. They can modify *another* copy (just like you) and
they can *replace* the copy in your device with the new version (unlike
you).

So your entire logical construct does not stand because this is not
(cannot be) about modifying a particular copy (how would you do that
anyway? hexedit the binary blob in place?) but about the ability to
deploy the software on a particular platform.

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fm