Motorola gnu/linux phones

[Thomas Charron]

On 8/13/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Thomas Charron wrote:
> > They don't HAVE to lock the hardware down for a given peice of
> > software, they just have to worry about the kernel, which is what
> > provides the interfaces TO the hardware.
> If they're only preventing modified versions of the kernel from running,
> then they don't have to worry about GPLv3.  But they do have to allow
> modified versions of any GPLv3 software to run.

  Correct.  I believe the perception is that GPLv3 software running
under a GPLv2 kernel should also allow modification.  This is
technically true, however, they would not need to provide an easy way
to do this.  What they DO need to do is provide an easy way for you to
reproduce the end result that the kernel itself would use, but it
would be up to someone else to figure out how to shoehorn the
modifications back into whatever filesystem they happened to be using.

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-- Thomas