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Authored by: pem on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 03:24 PM EDT |
Bear in mind that one of the express design goals of GPL v3 was to eliminate
Tivoization.
But Linus didn't go along. Whether he didn't want to, or decided he couldn't
(because of too many contributions from too many people) and put a brave face on
it, is irrelevant. Linux is GPL v2 only.
So if somebody had a GPL v2 or permissively licensed bootloader, they could
still load Linux in a locked system and the FSF can't do a lot about it. But
creating or maintaining a bootloader is a lot of work, so the FSF apparently
pinned some of their hopes on having the best bootloader under GPL v3.
But if Canonical is not using GPL v3, guess what? Whatever bootloader they
choose to use will be maintained and kept up and will be a tested, working
widget that the next Tivo can easily use to build another locked down Linux
system.
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