From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: rms <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
joseph.cihula@intel.com, jmorris@namei.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
arjan@linux.intel.com, hpa@zytor.com, andi@firstfloor.org,
chrisw@sous-sol.org, jbeulich@novell.com, peterm@redhat.com,
gang.wei@intel.com, shane.wang@intel.com, gnu@toad.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v3][PATCH 2/2] intel_txt: Intel(R) TXT and tboot kernel support
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:47:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090529094753.GA21928@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1M9Mig-0003Q4-S1@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Wed 2009-05-27 13:15:14, rms wrote:
> This scheme must be very different from anything I've heard of before.
> Can you tell me where to find a description?
> I want to study whether it really avoids being affected by GPLv3,
> and how we can fight against it.
Some description is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Execution_Technology .
And yes, I believe it avoids GPLv3: TXT allows user (I _hope_ it is
root-only) to boot tamper-free sandbox. As long as Windows (or
something) runs in the sandbox, I believe even GPLv3 would allow that.
OTOH... I do not think mainline kernel should support this. It does
not add anything to the user's security, and allows all kinds of nasty
DRMs.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-29 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-08 4:49 [RFC v3][PATCH 2/2] intel_txt: Intel(R) TXT and tboot kernel support Joseph Cihula
2009-05-08 6:53 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-29 1:02 ` Cihula, Joseph
2009-05-08 9:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-12 5:26 ` Cihula, Joseph
2009-05-12 9:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-12 9:55 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-12 21:01 ` Theodore Tso
2009-05-14 15:52 ` Heinz Diehl
2009-05-15 0:17 ` James Morris
2009-05-15 1:45 ` Cihula, Joseph
2009-05-15 1:51 ` Joe Perches
2009-05-15 2:49 ` Cihula, Joseph
2009-05-28 1:12 ` James Morris
2009-05-15 12:07 ` Theodore Tso
2009-05-15 12:26 ` Theodore Tso
2009-05-24 19:42 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-24 19:42 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <E1M8kJQ-0000W3-TE@fencepost.gnu.org>
2009-05-26 2:31 ` Theodore Tso
[not found] ` <E1M9Mig-0003Q4-S1@fencepost.gnu.org>
2009-05-29 9:47 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2009-05-19 20:30 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-22 16:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
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