On Monday 18 June 2007 04:49:56 Anders Larsen wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:54:56 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > I don't know any law that requires tivoization. > > Not exactly laws, but pretty close: > > Credit-card payment terminals are subject to strict security > certification, where it has to be ensured that > > a) the user cannot tinker with the device without rendering it unusable > for its original purpose (electronic payments), and > > b) the manufacturer is able to update the device _in_ _the_ _field_. > > Those are hard requirements imposed by the banks and credit-card companies. > > We _are_ allowed to disclose the source code (and we do, of course) so > that it can be used for other purposes, and of course the user can modify > it. But there's just no way she would be (legally) able to run the > modified software in the same device for the original purpose.
And with the current laws it wouldn't just be the user that is charged with a crime, but the company. For "Facilitating the commission of a crime". (btw, that is how, in the US, companies that provide "Full Automatic" conversion kits are prosecuted. (You can't be touched for providing instructions on how to do it - "Freedom of Speech" and all that, but...) DRH > With the (current draft of) GPLv3 we could not legally use Linux on such > devices. > > Cheers > Anders -- Dialup is like pissing through a pipette. Slow and excruciatingly painful. - 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/