Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753715AbXFOFjR (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:39:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751832AbXFOFjJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:39:09 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:34138 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751677AbXFOFjG (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:39:06 -0400 To: Bron Gondwana Cc: Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Daniel Hazelton , Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , debian developer , david@lang.hm, Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <200706132121.04532.dhazelton@enter.net> <200706132304.21984.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070614112329.3645c397@the-village.bc.nu> <20070614103846.GA7902@elte.hu> <20070614195517.GA4933@elte.hu> <20070614235004.GA14952@elte.hu> <20070615041149.GA6741@brong.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:38:41 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20070615041149.GA6741@brong.net> (Bron Gondwana's message of "Fri\, 15 Jun 2007 14\:11\:49 +1000") 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: 1305 Lines: 30 On Jun 15, 2007, Bron Gondwana wrote: > #define Dell CFG_FAVOURITE_VENDOR > A Dell desktop machine is a piece of hardware. The manufacturer has the > source code (hypothetically) to the BIOS. The BIOS is required for the > machine to boot and run Linux. > Riddle me this (especially Alexandre, I'm just latching on to Ingo's > post because it has the right hook to grab) - are Dell required to give > out the source to the bios to enable people to have the same rights Dell > engineers do to modify the behaviour of the system? What is the license for the bios? Does it say anything about 'no further restrictions on the freedoms to modify and share the software'? Does it include any mechanisms to stop people from booting modified versions of the Linux that ships with the machine? -- 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/