Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

On Jun 14, 2007, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I think the proper limit is the boundary where the limit of the
software is - because that's the only sane and globally workable way
to stop the power-hungry.

But see, I'm not talking about getting permission to hack the
hardware. I'm only talking about getting permission to hack the Free
Software in it.

It's your position that mingles the issues and permits people to use
the hardware to deprive users of freedom over the software that
they're entitled to have.

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Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
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Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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