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SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
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On Jun 21, 2007, david@lang.hm wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Jun 21, 2007, david@lang.hm wrote:
>>
>>> no, one of the rules for the network is that the software must be
>>> certified,
>>
>> In this case you might have grounds to enforce this restriction of the
>> network on the network controller itself, I suppose.

> how would the network controller know if the software has been modified?

The loader could check that and set a flag in the controller.

> what sort of signal can the network controller send that couldn't be
> forged by the OS?

Whatever the network controller designer created to enable it to do
so.

> how would you do this where the device is a receiver on the netwoek
> (such as a satellite receiver)

If it's input-only, then you can't possibly harm the operation of the
network by only listening in, can you?

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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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