david@lang.hm writes:

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> if the GPL can excercise control over compilations, then if Oracle
> were to ship a Oracle Linux live CD that contained the Oracle Database
> in the filesystem image, ready to run. then the GPL would be able to
> control the Oracle Database code.

By copyright law, it could.  By its language, it does not.

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> if the GPL can't do this then it can't control the checksum either.
>
> again, it's not just the kernel that's part of the checksum on a tivo,
> the checksum is over the kernel + initial filesystem, much of which
> contains code not covered by the gPL)

Again, did you miss where I pointed out that this makes it *worse* for
Tivo, because they are tying together -- and making inseparable -- a
combination that would otherwise be "mere aggregation"?

Michael Poole
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