Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 21, 2007, david@xxxxxxx wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Jun 20, 2007, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> 
>>> but the signature isn't part of the kernel, and the code that checks
>>> the signature is completely independant.
>> 
>> Well, then remove or otherwise mangle the signature in the disk of
>> your TiVo DVR and see at what point the boot-up process halts.

> I have actually done exactly that. what happens is that the bootloader
> detects a problem and switches to the other active partition ane
> reboots. ir neither of the boot partitions meet the requirements the
> cycle will continue forever.

Oh, too bad.  That must be a bug in the boot loader, right? :-)


BTW, since you got a TiVo...  I'm writing an article on Tivoization,
could you (or anyone else) please help me get information as to what
other GPLed programs or libraries TiVo includes in their devices?

Thanks in advance,

-- 
Alexandre Oliva         http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
FSF Latin America Board Member         http://www.fsfla.org/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer   aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist  oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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