Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757989AbXFOUnT (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:43:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754977AbXFOUnK (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:43:10 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:56134 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753354AbXFOUnJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:43:09 -0400 To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Michael Poole , Daniel Hazelton , Linus Torvalds , Lennart Sorensen , 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: <200706142246.57583.dhazelton@enter.net> <878xal2a0q.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> <200706150127.18069.dhazelton@enter.net> <87sl8tzaj1.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> <20070615124039.GB21120@elte.hu> <87fy4tz8dc.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> <20070615143003.GA8775@elte.hu> <87zm31xo3q.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> <20070615154200.GA17172@elte.hu> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:42:35 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20070615154200.GA17172@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Fri\, 15 Jun 2007 17\:42\:00 +0200") 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: 1011 Lines: 21 On Jun 15, 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > it is a false statement on your part that the executable "does not > function properly" if it lacks that part. Try it: take out the harddisk > from the Tivo (it's a bog standard IDE harddisk), put into a nice Linux > PC, mount it, modify a bit in the kernel image header and it will likely > still boot just fine on that PC. Ok, try this: take the disk out, remove/replace/modify the signature, put the disk back in, and tell me what it is that fail to run. -- 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/