Misunderstanding of embedded system designers

Misunderstanding of embedded system designers

Posted Jan 19, 2006 20:52 UTC (Thu) by Fats (subscriber, #14882)
In reply to: Misunderstanding of embedded system designers by karim
Parent article: GPLv3: a first look

"Sorry, as a software publisher you have the right to dictate how
your work is being used, not other people's work -- lest you are
telling me that the GPL3 is a DRM tool itself."

You distribute the GPL3 code with the hardware. If you do something in the hardware that is incompatible with the GPL3 license of the software there is a provision in the license that forces you to not distribute the GPL3 software. You are free to distribute the hardware but not the accompanying GPL3 software. Don't know if this applies to this specific case though.

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