From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932510AbWA1E5V (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:57:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932514AbWA1E5V (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:57:21 -0500 Received: from bee.hiwaay.net ([216.180.54.11]:45352 "EHLO bee.hiwaay.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932510AbWA1E5V (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:57:21 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:57:19 -0600 From: Chris Adams To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders Message-ID: <20060128045719.GA1565760@hiwaay.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Once upon a time, Linus Torvalds said: >I believe that hardware that limits what their users can do will die just >becuase being user-unfriendly is not a way to do successful business. Yes, >I'm a damned blue-eyed optimist, but I'd rather be blue-eyed than consider >all uses of security technology to necessarily always be bad. I haven't read the GPLv3 draft myself, but I would guess that private signing key language is aimed squarely at TiVo. They use a Linux kernel, but only kernel binaries signed by them will load (so you can't modify the kernel without jumping through hoops). Is that "user-unfriendly"? Probably so, but only to a small percentage of the users. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.