On Jun 18, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: >>> But since the software is good, and moving to another software >>> would be costly in various dimentions, the vendor has an incentive >>> to stick with the software they have.
> but if regulations or other contracts require tamper-resistant > hardware they have no choices other then to fork the existing GPLv2 > versions or switch to alternate options for anything that switches to > GPLv3 Where by "alternate options" I hope you mean non-copyleft or tivoizable (copyleft by definition) software, or (newer versions of) the same software they already use, but in ROM. (I point this out because people keep forgetting all the available options when they claim to enumerate all available options ;-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
