Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758714AbXFUTgJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:36:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757814AbXFUTfv (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:35:51 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:42049 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756985AbXFUTft (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:35:49 -0400 To: david@lang.hm 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 References: <20070616181902.GB21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> <4679557C.5080907@iders.ca> <20070620175627.319a6c55@the-village.bc.nu> <46797C52.4020907@iders.ca> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:34:19 -0300 In-Reply-To: (david@lang.hm's message of "Thu\, 21 Jun 2007 00\:33\:12 -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: 1360 Lines: 37 On Jun 21, 2007, david@lang.hm wrote: > 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? The loader could check that and set a flag in the controller. > what sort of signal can the network controller send that couldn't be > forged by the OS? Whatever the network controller designer created to enable it to do so. > how would you do this where the device is a receiver on the netwoek > (such as a satellite receiver) If it's input-only, then you can't possibly harm the operation of the network by only listening in, can you? -- 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/