On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:53 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > The last suggestion I heard from OLPC along these lines was that the
We had a _private_ conversation in which I carefully said that I was _not_ speaking for OLPC, and had no say or authority over laptop stuff. I look after the server and we both agreed that the server does the right thing at every corner. I am surprised that you'd misrepresent that private discussion in this way. To clarify for the rest of list, I mentioned in a much wider discussion that from my legal training in software licensing (2 papers, masters level) I observed that I suspect (but do now know fora fact) that in deployment countries kids are _not_ allowed to sell the laptops for profit while they are in school, so perhaps they don't own them in the legal sense until they finish school. Kids have the laptops to themselves in a practical everyday sense, they take them home and use them freely. But the fact that the school restricts their sale (and other things, like, oh, removing the sw that makes them useful in school) hints at where the legal ownership resides. Again -- this is my personal understanding. I don't speak for OLPC in these matters, and I am _not_ a lawyer. My _personal_ suspicion is that GPLv3 doesn't have a strong anti-tivolisation case here, ask a competent lawyer. cheers, m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
