Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:11:20 +0100 | From | David Greaves <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, David Greaves wrote: >> Surely it's more: >> bad == go away and don't use future improvements to our software anymore >> please. >> ?? > > Well, with the understanding that I don't think that what Tivo did was bad > in the first place, let me tackle that question *anyway*. > > The answer is: Not necessarily. I do agree with what you say here. Maybe a summary: Babies, bathwater... When you have a hammer (license) everything looks like a nail...
> See? You don't actually have to like Tivo to see downsides to trying to > stop them. Because these kinds of things have consequences *outside* of > just stopping Tivo.
My concern is around embedded type systems and maybe even the 'trusted' frameworks etc.
I _think_ I can see a completely opensource system that the end user cannot modify _in any way_. Which kinda defeats the point (to me) of opensource.
This 5 minute design undoubtedly has flaws but it shows a direction: A basically standard 'De11' PC with some flash. A Tivoised boot system so only signed kernels boot. A modified kernel that only runs (FOSS) executables whose signed hash lives in the flash.
Do we (you) _want_ to prevent this?
Do we trust in 'the market' to prevent this?
Do we use license tools?
David
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