Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Well much as I don't like what Tivo did with only allowing signed > kernels to run, I don't see anything in the above that says they can't
Well, it is not Tivo alone -- look at http://aminocom.com/ for an example. If you want the kernel sources pay USD 50k and we will provide the kernel sources, was their attitude. > do that. They let you have the code and make changes to it, they just > don't let you put that changed stuff on the device they build. The > software is free, even though the hardware is locked down. The GPL v3 > really seems to change the spirit to try and cover usage and hardware > behaviour, while the spirit of the GPL v2 seemed to me at least to > simply be to allow people to copy and change and use the code, and pass > that on to people. It didn't have anything to do with what they did > with it on hardware. Nothing prevents you from taking tivos kernel > changes and building your own hardware to run that code on, and as such > the spirit of the GPL v2 seems fulfilled. It covers freedom of the > source code and resulting binaries, not of the platform you run it on. > The GPL v3 has a much broader coverage of what it wants to control, > which to me means the spirit is different. > > I don't have a tivo, I use mythtv on my own PC. Tivo doesn't force you > to buy their hardware after all. Well, it is not Tivo alone, a large chunk of the vendors do that. The vendors who actually do it the clean way are just few and can be counted very easily. - 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/
