On Jun 14, 2007, Bongani Hlope <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday 14 June 2007 02:55:52 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> While TiVo retains the ability to replace, upgrade, fix, break or make
>> any other change in the GPLed software in the device, it ought to pass
>> it on to its customers.
> So according to your logic, I can go to Sharp's website and download the GPL
> source code for their Zaurus. But I don't own a Sharp Zaurus; to keep with
> your interpretation of the spirit of GPL, they have to give me a Zaurus so
> that I can run my modifications on the same hardware?
Sharp can modify the copy of the code in your Zaurus as much as you
do, when you don't have a Zaurus. I don't see how you can get to the
conclusion that they have to give you a Zaurus, when all you're
getting is software.
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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