Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 02, 2007 08:58 PM
>> [Linux] "It still purports to control not just software, but the hardware or environment that the software is installed on...."
The hardware environment is related to software very closely. Hardware provides a loophole to violate GPL software as anything that can be done in software can be done in hardware and vice-versa. The GPL's original intentions implicitly assumed the hardware context was constant (like a general purpose PC); otherwise, any modifications to code can just be done in hardware and not shared.
I really like the GPL3draft2 language except that it may have been a little too ambiguous (potentially too far reaching).
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Software and hardware are closely linked
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 02, 2007 08:58 PMThe hardware environment is related to software very closely. Hardware provides a loophole to violate GPL software as anything that can be done in software can be done in hardware and vice-versa. The GPL's original intentions implicitly assumed the hardware context was constant (like a general purpose PC); otherwise, any modifications to code can just be done in hardware and not shared.
I really like the GPL3draft2 language except that it may have been a little too ambiguous (potentially too far reaching).
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