Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758456AbXFQIId (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:08:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754711AbXFQIIU (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:08:20 -0400 Received: from paragon.brong.net ([66.232.154.163]:43059 "EHLO paragon.brong.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754368AbXFQIIT (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:08:19 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:08:14 +1000 From: Bron Gondwana To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: Daniel Hazelton , Bron Gondwana , Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , 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 Message-ID: <20070617080814.GB5440@brong.net> References: <200706162310.24726.dhazelton@enter.net> <200706170023.03209.dhazelton@enter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: brong.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1174 Lines: 24 On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:38:43AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 17, 2007, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > > Ah, but giving the user half the key doesn't mean they still don't have access > > to the entire key. QED: Giving people half the key won't cut it under the > > GPLv3 (dd4) > > I meant really giving, rather than giving a copy, or giving the > original and keeping a copy. > > You could make it require a pair of signatures, one from the vendor, > that the vendor keeps, one from the user, that the vendor never sees, > too. Like some bank PINs, it gets generated, used to generate some > hash (the signature for the initial installation), printed in an > envelope for you and stored in the package along with the machine. Or > something like that. Wow, and I thought losing a microsoft "certificate of authenticity" and associated key was a pain. Ouch. Talk about your paper "dongle". - 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/