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

From: Alexandre Oliva
Date: Thu Jun 21 2007 - 03:12:55 EST


On Jun 21, 2007, david@xxxxxxx wrote:

> frankly, I haven't checked the licenses on the software. I'd suggest
> going to www.tivo.com/linux and download all the source for all the
> different versions there.

Yeah, thanks, I remembered someone had posted that URL the second
after a hit Send :-(

I've already got cmd.tar.gz and I'm looking at it now.

Thanks again,

> by the way, it looks like there is one wireless driver that they ship
> in some releases but don't provide the source for. but if you plan on
> going after them for that you better go after everyone who ships
> binary kernel modules.

Only copyright holders of Linux can go after them on matters of kernel
drivers. Or is this driver derived from any software copyrighted by
myself? Or did you mean the FSF, with whom I'm not associated in any
way other than ideologically?

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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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