[U-Boot] U-book and GPLv3? (fwd)

Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2009-06-25T16:07:37Z

ksi at koi8.net a ?crit :
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 24 June 2009 20:59:11 Richard Stallman wrote:
>>> The principal purpose of these products is to restrict the public's
>>> freedom. So it is natural that their means involve restricting our
>>> freedom too.
>> it sure is nice to make generalities as it makes your resulting argument
>> so
>> much easier to digest. the companies ive worked with could give two
>> sh*ts
>> about end customers tinkering with their products. they're interested
>> in
>> keeping their product secure from other people in their respective
>> industry
>> and from malicious tampering for regulation/safety purposes.
>
> I would like to add that sometimes regulations EXPLICITELY require secure
> boot. No product can be approved without it. And this does not have anything
> to do with public's freedom. Just one example is gambling industry which I
> happen to work right now. Nobody cares about cloning or public's freedom
> here. What they care about is that nobody can cheat on those nice shiny
> machines that sometimes let a lucky person to win a multimillion jackpot.

Please point out precisely the regulations that require secure boot.
Should be trivial as regulations are by definition public.

I failed to understand how a secure booted machine can be updated by the
manufacturer to fix a bug for example, but not by a customer.

Regards,

Jean-Christian de Rivaz