Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756617AbXFUJ3Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:29:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754297AbXFUJ3G (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:29:06 -0400 Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com ([66.249.90.180]:16568 "EHLO ik-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754295AbXFUJ3E (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:29:04 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OI3zJnGYGCE5GoLlK57gPkmcXZ+LHe+HXpgqfSgWWKJEVWjU9C6ueJN9zWAa6gvzgm7B+HQCyDGvVVhz38PY8hC/15Q00hWo7g1SAUt9QCvQ1yEarbFVo4j+OhP+/AituEvN41gtoYcDFgc2M9lnUZqmEfq5jKsRs+Eh/JBWcH0= Message-ID: <467A44D5.90209@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:28:53 +0400 From: Manu Abraham User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bernd Petrovitsch CC: Tomas Neme , Alexandre Oliva , Andrew McKay , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Al Viro , Bernd Schmidt , Ingo Molnar , Daniel Hazelton , Greg KH , debian developer , david@lang.hm, Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <4679557C.5080907@iders.ca> <20070620175627.319a6c55@the-village.bc.nu> <46797C52.4020907@iders.ca> <2e6659dd0706201414g3a6af30cvfb50720962e9dc1c@mail.gmail.com> <1182417608.30700.23.camel@tara.firmix.at> In-Reply-To: <1182417608.30700.23.camel@tara.firmix.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1093 Lines: 26 Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 18:14 -0300, Tomas Neme wrote: > [....] >> Why, if you let user-compiled kernels to run in a TiVo, it might be >> modified so the TiVo can be used to pirate-copy protected content, > > Or it might be modified to fix a bug - either a technical one or a legal > one as described below. > >> which is a serious security hole. TiVo would need to read, approve of, > > "Pirate copying" is forbidden anyways in almost every jurisdiction > AFAIK. Perhaps we should disallow cars on the streets since one could > drive too fast with them. > Pirate copying should not be a reason to keep things closed as there are better methods to keep things open, yet provide a _not_ free service. But that would be upto the vendor how/what they wish to do rather than we talking about it. Which would be of no use. - 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/