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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 09:48 PM EDT |
Where do the distributors stand? Third parties? I don't think so.
They are Canonical's clients. If they come beating on Canonical's door asking
for help (the key) Canonical surely has some moral if not fiduciary duty towards
them.
I don't see how Canonical would have any duty toward
them, moral or otherwise. The problem described would come about because the
distributor did not make provisions for the purchaser of the machine to
excercise his software freedom w/o possessing Canonical's private key. IOW, the
problem would have been avoided by the distributor allowing the owner to turn
off secure boot or add his own keys. As a result, the distributor would loose
(as I understnad it) the right to convey or propigate the GPLv3 software in
question.
For business reasons Canonical may wish to cover the distributor's
back side. But I don't see that they have any obligation to do so. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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