On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 17:31, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Once more, very fuzzy. If your code is a loader then how am I gonna load > my stuff into your device without it? All I have to do is take the > firmware > image for your device, separate out your loader, replace the GPL with > my own GPL, and put it back together and put it back into the device. > How is your loader going to know that my GPL is any different than your > GPL unless you modded your GPL - in which case you have to make those > mods > public per GPL. >
I don't think you can. I mean. You could take the GPL software trees and create your own loader, glue, config, etc to create a system that works like the device but you can't actually modify the image. It is encrypted and the loader knows this. You could figure the key and then decrypt. There is nothing preventing you from running anything you want on the device. No license no restrictions. You could recreate the effort in creating all the proprietary code that glues all these pieces together and then you'll have a fully working device. Maybe there is confusion where device makers create devices then say in a license that you can not do anything else with the device. Even when using GPL software to do what they want the device to do? ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
