Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Sep 27 2006 - 20:09:16 EST


From: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:03:57 +1000

> I don't think that anyone is saying that what Tivo is doing isn't
> wrong. What is being said is that the license is the wrong place to
> try to stop this sort of behaviour. It is too broad a brush.

I totally agree. The poll was a stated position on the gplv3, it
didn't attempt to represent the positions on the core issues of
patents and DRM.

I personally do have a problem with what Tivo does with code
that I wrote, yet I also recognize that a license might not
be the best place to deal with this.
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