On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:48 AM, John Gilmore<g...@toad.com> wrote: > Re: [Sugar-devel] RFH - Journal corruption reports fom 8.2.1 users in Uy >> Remember that Ceibal XOs have root access locked-down. And I recently found >> out that since the key-delegation stuff was implemented, we can't request >> developer keys. Not from OLPC at least, and LATU is not providing that >> service >> that I know... > > Could someone please clarify this?
According to Ceilbal (24-08-09): "We have delivered developer keys in the past, and we will deliver them to the owner of the machine upon request." Therefore, I do not think that there is a violation of the GPL. -walter > It sounds like Project Ceibal is explicitly violating the GNU General > Public License on much or all of the software that it ships: > > * It provides binaries without source code, and without a written > offer of source code. > > * It provides binaries in a physical form (laptop) which is > protected against modification by the end-user, so that those > users cannot replace the GPLv3-licensed software on the laptop > with later versions. More than 20 packages shipped are GPLv3 > licensed, as of 12 months ago, including the Coreutils (most > shell commands), tar and cpio (used for software updates), and > gettext (internationalization). GPLv3 requires that the relevant > passwords or keys must be supplied to the end user -- including > both the "developer key" and the root password. > > * Some programs are modified, but the modified versions are not > marked to distinguish them from the original GPL-licensed > programs. > > There are other less important violations as well (most are documented > at bugs.laptop.org; search for "GPL"). > > I would be happy to learn that the children receiving these laptops > have full access to source code, ability to upgrade their laptops > at will, and can tell modified from unmodified software. Please let > me know what is really happening in the schools of Uruguay. > > John Gilmore > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel