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Message-ID: <orfy4n3it7.fsf@oliva.athome.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:23:00 -0300
From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com>
To: Anders Larsen <al@...rsen.net>
Cc: david@...g.hm, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
debian developer <debiandev@...il.com>,
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 Jun 19, 2007, Anders Larsen <al@...rsen.net> wrote:
> On 2007-06-18 21:50:12, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> Given the ROM exception in GPLv3, I guess you could seal and
>> anti-tamper it as much as you want, and leave the ROM at such a place
>> in which it's easily replaceable but with signature checking and all
>> such that the user doesn't install ROM that is not authorized by you.
> The manufacturer must be able to _remotely_ update the device
> firmware, so as I see it (IANAL), Tivoisation _is_ a requirement.
If you take the Wikipedia definition of Tivoization, you'll see it's
about copyleft software only, and no law mandates the use of copyleft
software. There's no end to bad laws, but a law that mandated the use
of copyleft (=> free) software and at the same time prohibited
modifications by the user would be a very contradictory one.
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@...dhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist oliva@...d.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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