Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765829AbXFRS6T (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:58:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764639AbXFRS6I (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:58:08 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:56321 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763832AbXFRS6F convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:58:05 -0400 To: =?utf-8?Q?Hans-J=C3=BCrgen?= Koch Cc: Alan Cox , Ingo Molnar , Daniel Hazelton , Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , debian developer , david@lang.hm, Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Chris Friesen , Bernd Schmidt , Robin Getz , Rob Landley , Bron Gondwana , Al Viro Subject: Re: mea culpa on the meaning of Tivoization References: <20070618005041.6c51a368@the-village.bc.nu> <200706180922.26630.hjk@linutronix.de> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:55:37 -0300 In-Reply-To: <200706180922.26630.hjk@linutronix.de> (=?utf-8?Q?=22Hans-J?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=BCrgen?= Koch"'s message of "Mon\, 18 Jun 2007 09\:22\:26 +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=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1105 Lines: 25 On Jun 18, 2007, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > So, if a manufacturer used a ROM instead of a flash memory with the > intention to make software modifications impossible, then it is bad, > and when he did it for economical reasons, then it is a "natural barrier"? This sounds about right to me. Intent is very significant, but then, what vendor would justify the choice of ROM as "intent to prevent modifications", if this amounted to copyright infringement? Vendor would be entitled to the benefit of the doubt as to the motivations in this case, so it would likely be unenforceable anyway. -- 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/