Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760916AbXFSSXd (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:23:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756268AbXFSSXZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:23:25 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:43814 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753886AbXFSSXY (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:23:24 -0400 To: Anders Larsen Cc: david@lang.hm, Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Daniel Hazelton , Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , debian developer , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <1182244240l.11262l.0l@ecxwww1.reanet.de> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:23:00 -0300 In-Reply-To: <1182244240l.11262l.0l@ecxwww1.reanet.de> (Anders Larsen's message of "Tue\, 19 Jun 2007 11\:10\:40 +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: 1348 Lines: 27 On Jun 19, 2007, Anders Larsen wrote: > On 2007-06-18 21:50:12, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> Given the ROM exception in GPLv3, I guess you could seal and >> anti-tamper it as much as you want, and leave the ROM at such a place >> in which it's easily replaceable but with signature checking and all >> such that the user doesn't install ROM that is not authorized by you. > The manufacturer must be able to _remotely_ update the device > firmware, so as I see it (IANAL), Tivoisation _is_ a requirement. If you take the Wikipedia definition of Tivoization, you'll see it's about copyleft software only, and no law mandates the use of copyleft software. There's no end to bad laws, but a law that mandated the use of copyleft (=> free) software and at the same time prohibited modifications by the user would be a very contradictory one. -- 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/