On Jun 14, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > They let you have the code and make changes to it,
Not to the software installed in the device. What they do is like an author A who distributes a program to user B under a non-Free Software license, and to user C under a Free Software license. C passes the program on to B under the same license. Now B has two copies of the program. One is free, the other is not. Except that TiVO had no right to distribute the program under non-Free terms in the first place, because it was not the author, and the license it had explicitly said it couldn't impose further restrictions. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
