On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 04:26:34PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > If the bug is in the non-GPLed BIOS, not in the GPLed code, too bad. > One more reason to dislike non-Free Software.
Maybe the Tivo only loading signed kernels is a bug in their bios. :) > The freedom the GPL defends is not the freedom to modify and debug the > system, but rather the covered software. > > Now, if you find evidence that the "bug" is actually intentionally put > there to stop you from doing what you wanted with the software, then > there's clearly a violation of the spirit of the license, and you > might even have a case of copyright infringement, but IANAL. There are many interesting bugs out there. Who is to say what was intensional? -- Len Sorensen - 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/
