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news at 11.news at 11.Posted Apr 24, 2003 16:32 UTC (Thu) by dthurston (guest, #4603)In reply to: news at 11. by corbet Parent article: Linus on digital rights management Umm, you do know that Tivo already does this, right? The FSF has stated that they are fine with the practice (or at least that it doesn't violate the GPL).
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FSF not OK with bootloaders that only load *signed* GPL'd kernels Posted Apr 24, 2003 17:00 UTC (Thu) by emk (subscriber, #1128) [Link] The FSF is not fine with this practice, as far as I can tell--they really fear things like the next generation XBox, which is apparently targetted to take the place of home computers, but (allegedly) will only run signed software. Once you have DRM, you can see your GPL'd programs, but you may not be able to run modified versions. However, the FSF does not believe that such sneakiness violates GPLv2, as written. GPLv3 may or may not address this issue.
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