Re: [gentoo-dev] Watch out for license changes to GPL-3.

[Kevin Lacquement <kevin@lacqui.com>]

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Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:10:35PM +0200, Dominique Michel wrote:
>>>> Can you explain more. If the kernel can be tivoized by someone
>>> I'm sorry, but "tivoized" is not a verb.  Please explain what you mean
>>> by this.
>> I mean if someone distribute a kernel with a licence that forbid to remove the
>> functions he added even if we don't want them (as example drm at the kernel
>> level as in Vista),
> 
> But that's impossible with the current Linux kernel license, so how
> could that ever happen?  Why even try to discuss an impossiblity?
> 

I understood it to mean that you're allowed to change the source, but
the hardware has locks on it to prevent you from using the changed
source.  So yes, you're allowed to modify the code and pass it on (as
permitted by the GPL), but you can't actually run it (eg due to code
signing requirements)


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