Why Torvalds is sitting out the GPLv3 process (Linux.com)
Why Torvalds is sitting out the GPLv3 process (Linux.com)
Posted Sep 28, 2006 22:07 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)In reply to: Why Torvalds is sitting out the GPLv3 process (Linux.com) by b3timmons
Parent article: Why Torvalds is sitting out the GPLv3 process (Linux.com)
It is too a fact, because you know very well that the freedoms under discussion are the four freedoms. Tivo has freedom one--the freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to their needs--and you don't, since it is impossible to run any possible modified version of yours.
How is it impossible? Modified it won't run on your TiVo, but it runs here on my PC just fine.
And what about the same TiVo, just with the software in ROM? That is OK under GPLv3, but is the same situation from the user's point.
Posted Sep 29, 2006 0:34 UTC (Fri)
by b3timmons (guest, #40286)
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Modified it must be possible to run it on my Tivo because
that is what this whole thing is about: my ability to implement the
same functionality in the same range of circumstances as what Tivo
does by exploiting GPLed code for the device that I bought from them and now own. Fortunately, the GPLv3
restores my ability lost from Tivo exploiting a loophole.
No--not the same situation, because now Tivo and I are now on an equal
footing--Freedom One applying to neither of us, unlike the
Tivoization case above.
Why Torvalds is sitting out the GPLv3 process (Linux.com)
How is it impossible? Modified it won't run on your TiVo,
but it runs here on my PC just fine.
And what about the same TiVo, just with the software in
ROM? That is OK under GPLv3, but is the same situation from the user's
point.