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Peter Köhlmann <peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Mark Kent wrote:
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>> Peter Köhlmann <peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Mark Kent wrote:
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>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> __/ [ George Ellison ] on Wednesday 27 September 2006 03:26 \__
>>>>>
>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>>> FSF Responds to Misunderstandings about GPLv3
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>> | I am going to reproduce the FSF response to recent
>>>>>>> | misunderstandings about GPLv3 in its entirety. I think you will be
>>>>>>> | able to see how seriously the kernel developers' statement
>>>>>>> | misunderstood what the GPLv3 says and what it does.
>>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060925204515114
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anybody else at this point just want to see the FSF and the kernel
>>>>>> team duke it out in a steel cage? It seems like the only way this is
>>>>>> ever going to get resolved.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is also disagreement internally.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://lwn.net/Articles/200656/
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been reminded that GPLv3 means no TiVo, HD-DVD players, as well
>>>>> as some phones. I begin to wonder if compliance with the awful trend is
>>>>> the better way.
>>>>
>>>> Why wouldn't you be able to have TiVo, DVD players and phones?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Because GPL3 would not allow them
>>> The misconception is that it is just some "clarification" of GPL2
>>> It is not. And thats the reason lots of people oppose it
>>
>> And why would it not allow them - I see this not.
>>
>
> DRM. Software patents
On Software patents, the GPLv3 merely says that if you have a patent in
a particular area on which you have supplied GPLed code, you may /not/
pursue users of that code with respect to a licence for the patent.
Basically, it's about preventing submarine patents, and to me, seems
quite sane.
The alternative is that at some point, some organisation might try to
seek payment for the use of code which they knowingly introduced into a
GPLed source-tree.
I can see nothing there which would prevent Tivo, DVD players and/or
phones.
I'm not so sure about the DRM angle - what do you think that the issue
would be?
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