lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2007]   [Jun]   [17]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:38:43AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:
>
> > Ah, but giving the user half the key doesn't mean they still don't have access
> > to the entire key. QED: Giving people half the key won't cut it under the
> > GPLv3 (dd4)
>
> I meant really giving, rather than giving a copy, or giving the
> original and keeping a copy.
>
> You could make it require a pair of signatures, one from the vendor,
> that the vendor keeps, one from the user, that the vendor never sees,
> too. Like some bank PINs, it gets generated, used to generate some
> hash (the signature for the initial installation), printed in an
> envelope for you and stored in the package along with the machine. Or
> something like that.

Wow, and I thought losing a microsoft "certificate of authenticity" and
associated key was a pain. Ouch. Talk about your paper "dongle".
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2007-06-17 10:11    [W:0.707 / U:0.396 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site