Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>]

On Jun 15, 2007, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> it is a false statement on your part that the executable "does not 
> function properly" if it lacks that part. Try it: take out the harddisk 
> from the Tivo (it's a bog standard IDE harddisk), put into a nice Linux 
> PC, mount it, modify a bit in the kernel image header and it will likely 
> still boot just fine on that PC.

Ok, try this: take the disk out, remove/replace/modify the signature,
put the disk back in, and tell me what it is that fail to run.

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Alexandre Oliva         http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
FSF Latin America Board Member         http://www.fsfla.org/
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Free Software Evangelist  oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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