Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764853AbXFRSeN (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:34:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761276AbXFRSd6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:33:58 -0400 Received: from dsl081-033-126.lax1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.33.126]:59024 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761382AbXFRSd5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:33:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:32:41 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Alexandre Oliva cc: Greg KH , Al Viro , Daniel Hazelton , Bron Gondwana , Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , debian developer , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <200706161817.36657.dhazelton@enter.net> <200706162306.14516.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070617051451.GD21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20070618154549.GB6041@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 760 Lines: 19 do you realize that redhat uses checksums or signatures to check the validity of their CD's? try to burn a redhat image with the -pad option which adds a chunk of 0's to the end of the image and try to boot it. I seriously doubt if redhat tells you how to how to generate such a checksum/signature. in addition to the problem that Linus points out about being unable to change the contents of the write-only CD this would seem to conflict with what you are claiming the GPL is supposed to allow. David Lang - 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/