Alan Cox writes:
On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:58:52 +0930 William Brown <william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 1/06/12 16:50, Javier Perez wrote: > > William. The operating word here is Tiviozation. > > You can compile the kernel but you can't run it on the system. That is > > the threat GPL3 is trying to counteract.> > By creating "valid" kernels, by definition "not valid kernels" cannot run.> > > > Well, It would appear that Grub 2 is GPL3, and in my interpretation of > how Tivoization works, this would appear to be a violation. I'm assuming they will switch to another loader. Tivoising grub2 would indeed be asking for a fight.
This would be the canary in the coal mine, to see if I was on the right track, yesterday.
If, all of a sudden, another bootloader gets pushed into Fedora, only a year or so after all the headache and pain of migrating from grub 1 to grub 2, then this will validate our collective take on the subject.
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