Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752848AbXFNJah (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:30:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751123AbXFNJa3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:30:29 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:58944 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751094AbXFNJa3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:30:29 -0400 To: Daniel Hazelton Cc: Alexandre Oliva , Linus Torvalds , Lennart Sorensen , Greg KH , debian developer , "david@lang.hm" , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <200706132042.02728.dhazelton@enter.net> <200706132347.42371.dhazelton@enter.net> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:30:25 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200706132347.42371.dhazelton@enter.net> (Daniel Hazelton's message of "Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:47:42 -0400") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 845 Lines: 19 Daniel Hazelton writes: > Exactly. And I don't see anything about a TiVO (or any device that, like a > TiVO, requires binaries that run on it to be digitally signed) that stops > you > from exercising the "freedoms" guaranteed by the GPL. As I said before, what > it does is stop you from violating the license on the hardware. BTW: don't they sell their hardware (as well)? I think it should be easy to replace the ROMs (EPROMs? flash ROMs?) using some diagnostic clip and/or JTAG. Unless the CPU itself verifies ROM signatures, they shouldn't matter. -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/