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FSF not OK with bootloaders that only load *signed* GPL'd kernelsFSF not OK with bootloaders that only load *signed* GPL'd kernelsPosted Apr 24, 2003 17:00 UTC (Thu) by emk (subscriber, #1128)In reply to: news at 11. by dthurston Parent article: Linus on digital rights management
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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