Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752570AbXFUGGc (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:06:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750758AbXFUGGX (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:06:23 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:48861 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750743AbXFUGGX (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:06:23 -0400 To: david@lang.hm Cc: Michael Poole , 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> <2e6659dd0706201205i52e0b836oe642e2b442e425d7@mail.gmail.com> <87wsxysaad.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> <87odjas9f7.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:05:56 -0300 In-Reply-To: (david@lang.hm's message of "Wed\, 20 Jun 2007 21\:08\:23 -0700 \(PDT\)") 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: 1415 Lines: 35 On Jun 21, 2007, david@lang.hm wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Jun 20, 2007, david@lang.hm wrote: >> >>> but the signature isn't part of the kernel, and the code that checks >>> the signature is completely independant. >> >> Well, then remove or otherwise mangle the signature in the disk of >> your TiVo DVR and see at what point the boot-up process halts. > I have actually done exactly that. what happens is that the bootloader > detects a problem and switches to the other active partition ane > reboots. ir neither of the boot partitions meet the requirements the > cycle will continue forever. Oh, too bad. That must be a bug in the boot loader, right? :-) BTW, since you got a TiVo... I'm writing an article on Tivoization, could you (or anyone else) please help me get information as to what other GPLed programs or libraries TiVo includes in their devices? Thanks in advance, -- 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/