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

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>]

On Jun 16, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:

> On Friday 15 June 2007 23:44:00 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Jun 16, 2007, Tim Post <tim.post@netkinetics.net> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 23:29 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> >> Tivo has two choices: either it gives
>> >> users the content they want to watch, or it goes out of business. Is
>> >> that legitimate enough of a reason to restrict the hardware?
>> >
>> > Can I submit that they could just rent the use of their machines?
>> 
>> I don't think this would escape the wording of section 6 in GPLv3dd4:
>> 
>> [...] User Product is transferred to the recipient in perpetuity or
>> for a fixed term (regardless of how the transaction is
>> characterized), [...]
>> 
>> and IMHO that's as it should be to defend the freedoms of the user.

> In the case of renting a machine you can try to legislate new laws all you 
> want. It doesn't make a difference. There are certain rights you don't get 
> when renting something that you do when you own it.

You mean renting the computer with the software in it is not
distribution of the software?

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Alexandre Oliva         http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
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