Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755065AbXFUHeI (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:34:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752870AbXFUHd5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:33:57 -0400 Received: from dsl081-033-126.lax1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.33.126]:34661 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751692AbXFUHd4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:33:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:33:12 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Alexandre Oliva cc: Andrew McKay , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Al Viro , Bernd Schmidt , Ingo Molnar , Daniel Hazelton , 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 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070616181902.GB21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> <4679557C.5080907@iders.ca> <20070620175627.319a6c55@the-village.bc.nu> <46797C52.4020907@iders.ca> 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: 1170 Lines: 32 On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 21, 2007, david@lang.hm wrote: > >> no, one of the rules for the network is that the software must be >> certified, > > In this case you might have grounds to enforce this restriction of the > network on the network controller itself, I suppose. how would the network controller know if the software has been modified? > Not that you should disable the network controller entirely (this > would render the computer useless for many other purpose unrelated > with blocking connections to your network). > > You could instead arrange for the network controller to send some > signal that enables the network to recognize that the device is > running certified software. what sort of signal can the network controller send that couldn't be forged by the OS? how would you do this where the device is a receiver on the netwoek (such as a satellite receiver) 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/