[Fsf-friends] [CrossPosted] Groklaw - What Linspire Agreed To

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007072014373817

It's worse than Novell's, actually. It's worse than Tivo, in my book. I
know some say that Tivo doesn't interfere with you modifying, as long as
you give up using the modified software on Tivo hardware. To me, that is
a penalty not contemplated by GPLv2, because if you buy a Tivo, it's
because you wanted to use the software with the Tivo hardware, but with
Linspire's agreement, you have to give up pretty much all your GPL
freedoms, as far as I can make out, and more. And what do you get in
return for giving up everything? True Type fonts, Windows Media 10, DVD
playback, patent coverage...

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You see things; and you say 'Why?';
But I dream things that never were;
and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw
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