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Success measured by goals

Success measured by goals

Posted Jun 29, 2012 17:45 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Success measured by goals by raven667
Parent article: Linksvayer: 5 years of GPLv3

If I understand correctly, it would not be legal to ship a binary of GRUB2 with a machine that does not allow the user to install his/her own signing keys, because the user then cannot replace it with a new version (unless an appropriate private key is provided to the user).

But it seems to me that if a laptop shipped with GRUB2 comes with a document telling the user how to install a private key on that laptop, and how to sign new binaries with that key, then GPL3 is fully complied with.


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