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

Adrian Bunk
2007-06-14T00:50:49Z

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:15:53AM +0200, Bongani Hlope wrote:
> On Thursday 14 June 2007 01:49:23 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > On Jun 13, 2007, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > The fact is, Tivo didn't take those rights away from you, yet the FSF
> > > says that what Tivo did was "against the spirit". That's *bullshit*.
> >
> > Oh, good, let's take this one.
> >
> > if you distribute copies of such a program, [...]
> > you must give the recipients all the rights that you have
> >
> > So, TiVo includes a copy of Linux in its DVR.
>
> And they give you the same right that they had, which is obtain free software
> that you can modify and redistribute. There's nothing in there that says they
> should give you the tools they used after they received the software, which
> is what you seem to be looking for.
>...

Wrong, the GPLv2 says:

"For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code
for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition
files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of
the executable."

The question is whether this includes private keys.
Different people have different opinions regarding this issue.

cu
Adrian

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