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

Bron Gondwana
2007-06-17T08:08:33Z

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:38:43AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:
>
> > Ah, but giving the user half the key doesn't mean they still don't have access
> > to the entire key. QED: Giving people half the key won't cut it under the
> > GPLv3 (dd4)
>
> I meant really giving, rather than giving a copy, or giving the
> original and keeping a copy.
>
> You could make it require a pair of signatures, one from the vendor,
> that the vendor keeps, one from the user, that the vendor never sees,
> too. Like some bank PINs, it gets generated, used to generate some
> hash (the signature for the initial installation), printed in an
> envelope for you and stored in the package along with the machine. Or
> something like that.

Wow, and I thought losing a microsoft "certificate of authenticity" and
associated key was a pain. Ouch. Talk about your paper "dongle".