linux-kernel - Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

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Date:	Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:08:14 +1000
From:	Bron Gondwana <brong@...tmail.fm>
To:	Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com>
Cc:	Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net>,
	Bron Gondwana <brong@...tmail.fm>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	debian developer <debiandev@...il.com>, david@...g.hm,
	Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@...one.net.tr>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:38:43AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net> wrote:
> 
> > Ah, but giving the user half the key doesn't mean they still don't have access 
> > to the entire key. QED: Giving people half the key won't cut it under the 
> > GPLv3 (dd4)
> 
> I meant really giving, rather than giving a copy, or giving the
> original and keeping a copy.
> 
> You could make it require a pair of signatures, one from the vendor,
> that the vendor keeps, one from the user, that the vendor never sees,
> too.  Like some bank PINs, it gets generated, used to generate some
> hash (the signature for the initial installation), printed in an
> envelope for you and stored in the package along with the machine.  Or
> something like that.

Wow, and I thought losing a microsoft "certificate of authenticity" and
associated key was a pain.  Ouch.  Talk about your paper "dongle".
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