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

Alexandre Oliva
2007-06-19T23:38:04Z

On Jun 19, 2007, david@lang.hm wrote:

> if a company doesn't care about tivoizing then they won't do it, it
> takes time and money to tivoize some product and it will cause
> headaches for the company.

> their reasons for wanting to tivoize a product may be faulty, but they
> think that the reasons are valid or they wouldn't go to the effort.

Absolutely right. And we'll get to that. Please just be patient.

In fact, how much the company cares about tivoizing is completely
irrelevant to that point. I shouldn't even have included it, but I
did because I thought it would be useful as a boundary condition.

So just disregard that.

Is there agreement that, comparing tivoized and non-tivoized hardware,
we get'd more contributions if the hardware is not tivoized, because
users can scratch their own itches, than we would for tivoized
hardware?

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