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

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On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[email protected]> wrote:

> Faulty logic. The hardware doesn't *restrict* you from *MODIFYING*
> any fscking thing.

Ok, lemme try again:

case 2'': tivo provides source, end user tries to improve it, realizes
the hardware won't let him use the result of his efforts, and gives up

> On Thursday 14 June 2007 18:45:07 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> Where's the payback, or the payforward?
>> 
>> And then, tit-for-tat is about equivalent retaliation, an eye for an
>> eye.  Where's the retaliation here?
>> 
>> If GPLv2 were tit-for-tat, if someone invents artifices to prevent the
>> user from making the changes the user wants on the software, wouldn't
>> it be "equivalent retaliation" to prevent the perpetrator from making
>> the changes it wants on the software?

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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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