Questions on GPL application for embedded product

[Harald Welte]

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 07:06:55PM +0200, Pierre Michon wrote:

> So this means that companies that builds devices that only accept
> signed binaries violate the GPLv2 ?

yes, at least as long as there is no possibility for the user to add his
own key and make the product accept binaries signed with his key.

This has been enforced a number of times out-of-court by
gpl-violations.org.
 
> Wasn't the GPLv3 draft that force companies to give the private key in
> such case ?

yes, the GPLv3 draft merely makes it explicit what the GPLv2 already
implicitly intends to do. 

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- Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org>          	        http://gnumonks.org/
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