On Jun 15, 2007, Bron Gondwana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What happens if you're debugging something you think is a bug in the > Linux kernel and then you run bang into some interactions that make you > think the bug might be in the BIOS instead.
> have denied your freedom to modify and debug the system they sold you If the bug is in the non-GPLed BIOS, not in the GPLed code, too bad. One more reason to dislike non-Free Software. The freedom the GPL defends is not the freedom to modify and debug the system, but rather the covered software. Now, if you find evidence that the "bug" is actually intentionally put there to stop you from doing what you wanted with the software, then there's clearly a violation of the spirit of the license, and you might even have a case of copyright infringement, but IANAL. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/