Dear David, *I am a developer on Sigma Designs SMP8634 platform. Technically speaking, it doesn't run uCLinux as it has MMU. It runs a main line kernel with Sigma Designs' patch.* do you mean that it will be impossible for me to run uCLinux without sigmadesigns SDK? or can i use buildroot or OpenEmbedded to compile?
On 6/18/07, David T. L. Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:37 +0800, Rogelio Serrano wrote: > On 6/18/07, David T. L. Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > don't know anything about it. I told them they have to allow end user > > run their code on the product if Linux adopt GPLv3. They response that I > > shouldn't grand user the right of running their own code. They even > > claim that if Linux adopt GPLv3, it may not be a good license and they > > may consider drops Linux support... > > Well... > > > > Relax, thats not going to happen. Linus dont want gpl v3 for the kernel. > > I dont want to buy boxes like the Tivo though. > So far it is. But how about Samba & NTFS-3g? Any component we used in our product changes to GPLv3 would give us a headache. Sigma Designs 863X platform requires the kernel image to be signed so that the bootloader boots it. I foresee this conflict of GPLv3 and signed kernel. I think I could not disclose the key for signing a kernel to end users so that they can build their kernel. I may need to build a signed 2nd stage bootloader to boot unsigned kernel image. It will slow down the boot process in turn. I also afraid that I breaks the license agreement with Sigma Designs and with Microsoft, for WMV DRM, if I let users run their own kernel on the product. David _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
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