-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Ewing wrote: > My point is that all this comes under the "necessary > information" clause, IMO. If they are using modified > GPL3'ed code in it anywhere, they *have* to provide > all of that -- otherwise you're missing information > needed to install your own modified version based on > their source.
I fail to see the relevance - the PS/3 compiler is not likely using GPL v3 code. Based on what exactly should they provide it? Or the development documentation? > > I think that if it were feasible to run the result on a > standard, unmodified Playstation, there would be a lot more > incentive for someone to come up with such a toolchain. > I'm sure there are many enterprising young hackers -- > er, enthusiasts -- around who would relish the challenge. Sure, but that is not the case. So the discussion about e.g. Soya being "tivoized" on a PS/[23] is quite moot, IMHO. > If the original copyright holder doesn't want this to > happen, all he needs to do is not relinquish the copyright > to anyone. I don't see the need for a viral licence to > protect against this. And what if the original copyright owner sells the rights? It is not about him, but about you and me - the people who are using his product. > For further reassurance, a non-revokability clause could > be included in the licence. I'm not sure whether such > clauses are legally binding, but if they're not, then the > GPL itself provides no more protection in this respect. I am not sure that this will work - GPL does the job already, this would be just another legal minefield. > > Well, it might help with that, but this still comes into the > category of "giving something back". If you don't care about > getting anything back, you're at liberty to ignore all the > proprietary versions, and you're no worse off than if they > didn't exist in the first place. Well, that's not true - you start to care if your customers start coming to you for support but using modified versions based on forked code you do not control. Yes, you can show them a door, but you wouldn't probably survive the bad PR afterwards as a company :( Jan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mandriva - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH1rn9n11XseNj94gRAoQgAKDGrN+ks2EONSBCZtTIYovGYUYPgwCgmiCt IIAwjzol7qSAfBjNkNvCoxA= =6UYc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Soya-user mailing list Soya-user@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/soya-user
