Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758252AbXFOCIw (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:08:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752262AbXFOCIp (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:08:45 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45838 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751435AbXFOCIp (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:08:45 -0400 To: Rob Landley Cc: Robin Getz , "Daniel Hazelton" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Alan Cox" , "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: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <200706141014.21574.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> <200706141944.21280.rob@landley.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:07:45 -0300 In-Reply-To: <200706141944.21280.rob@landley.net> (Rob Landley's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 19\:44\:19 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) 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: 1310 Lines: 34 On Jun 14, 2007, Rob Landley wrote: > On Thursday 14 June 2007 13:46:40 Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> Well, then, ok: do all that loader and hardware signature-checking >> dancing, sign the image, store it in the machine, and throw the >> signing key away. This should be good for the highly-regulated areas >> you're talking about. And then, since you can no longer modify the >> program, you don't have to let the user do that any more. Problem >> solved. > A) Does that actually satisfy the terms of GPLv3? I think so: this requirement does not apply if neither you nor any third party retains the ability to install modified object code on the User Product > If so, can't they just wait until they get sued and destroy the keys > then? I don't think this woulnd't satisfy the above. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} - 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/