> Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not > covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of > running the Program is not restricted, ... > > The license does not cover running of the program. It doesn't restrict > it, but it doesn't cover it. Claiming otherwise is turning the GPL into > yet another dreaded EULA.
For many juridisctions loading from disk into memory is copying and in some from memory to CPU cache a second copy. This is one reason as I understand it GPLv3 talks about "conveying" - to avoid that mess and confusion. > In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program > with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of > a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under > the scope of this License. > > TiVo's firmware (and any restrictions it may carry) is not affected by > the GPLv2. Really irrelevant to the discussion. Tivo's firmware is up to them. Whether the resulting system permits them to include GPLv2 software with it is what matters. Alan - 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/