Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758788AbXFUTix (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:38:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751198AbXFUTio (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:38:44 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:43000 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754261AbXFUTin (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:38:43 -0400 To: davids@webmaster.com Cc: , "Linux-Kernel\@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:38:30 -0300 In-Reply-To: (David Schwartz's message of "Thu\, 21 Jun 2007 11\:17\:50 -0700") 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: 1435 Lines: 36 On Jun 21, 2007, "David Schwartz" wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:55:10 -0700 >> "David Schwartz" wrote: >> > A key is a number. A signature is a number. They are neither >> > statements nor >> > instructions. The argument that GPLv2 prohibits Tivoization is >> > really and >> > truly absurd. It has neither a legal nor a moral leg to stand on. >> A computer program is a number too. > No, it's not. It can be expressed as a number, but it is not a number. By this logic, then a key is a key, and a signature is a signature. They can be expressed as numbers, sure. > A computer program is a set of instructions to accomplish a particular > result. It can be expressed as a number, but that doesn't mean it is a > number. A key is an input to a cryptographical algorithm, and a signature is an output. I could try to come up with more creative definitions, but you get the idea already. -- 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/