Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759926AbXFTT1G (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:27:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753480AbXFTT04 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:26:56 -0400 Received: from 24-75-174-210-st.chvlva.adelphia.net ([24.75.174.210]:46348 "EHLO sanosuke.troilus.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753267AbXFTT0z (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:26:55 -0400 To: david@lang.hm Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Tomas Neme , "Linux-Kernel\@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <9a8748490706201034j43139301w5a18c172d688c724@mail.gmail.com> <2e6659dd0706201110x20fa5c28n5d6fc094e9f5c832@mail.gmail.com> <871wg6trnx.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> <467977F7.2040506@zytor.com> From: Michael Poole Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:26:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: (david@lang.hm's message of "Wed\, 20 Jun 2007 12\:06\:42 -0700 \(PDT\)") Message-ID: <87sl8ms9z5.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (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: 999 Lines: 22 david@lang.hm writes: > this is very much NOT true. if you take the source the provide you can > compile a kernel that will run on the tivo, the only thing you have to > do (on some models) is to change the bios to skip the step that checks > if the kernel has been tampered with. If we are opining whether Tivo provided complete source code for their Linux kernel images, the requirement to change non-GPLed software as a condition to exercise GPL-protected rights speaks for itself. Out of curiosity, what do you have to do on models besides those? Are newer models more or less restrictive in what they run? If newer models are more restrictive, I think that also speaks to whether Tivo thinks it is conveying complete source code. Michael Poole - 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/