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

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 20, 2007, lsorense@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 04:26:34PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> If the bug is in the non-GPLed BIOS, not in the GPLed code, too bad.
>> One more reason to dislike non-Free Software.

> Maybe the Tivo only loading signed kernels is a bug in their bios. :)

That might be so.  And in the US, a court might end up finding that
piece of code was taken at random, for no particular reason, from a
sample of garbage produced by code monkeys (in a very literal sense)
typing at random on computer keyboards over a large period of time ;-)

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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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