On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realise that the latest GPLv3 draft would not pose restrictions > here, as such devices would not be classified as consumer > products.
And even if they were, there's always ROM. I don't know whether hardware seals that state "once you break this seal, law prohibits the use of this device with human patients". Then the restriction is not being imposed by the manufacturer, only by law, and this does make lot of a difference as far as software freedom is concerned. But then, law might not find this to be enough. Software patents are not the only stupid law that harms Free Software :-( -- 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/
