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

[Florin Malita]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > > When they download the software, they get another copy, and they have
> > > a right to modify that copy.
> > >       
> > But you get the TiVO corporations copy of the software?
> >     
>
> Yes.  The customer gets the copy that TiVO stored in the hard disk in
> the device it sells.  And it's that copy that the customer is entitled
> to modify because TiVO is still able to modify it.
>   

No, by this twisted logic Tivo *cannot* modify that particular copy any 
more than you can. They can modify *another* copy (just like you) and 
they can *replace* the copy in your device with the new version (unlike 
you).

So your entire logical construct does not stand because this is not 
(cannot be) about modifying a particular copy (how would you do that 
anyway? hexedit the binary blob in place?) but about the ability to 
deploy the software on a particular platform.

---
fm

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