On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 13:57 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: > Alex Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > the "Tivoisation" clause can affect those people just distributing > > software > > Just distributing is never enough to make that clause kick in. The clause > adds a requirement if some keys are necessary in order to install/modify/run > the software. Keys will only ever be necessary if you have arranged with > the hardware manufacturer for them to be necessary.
While I agree arrangements must be in place, they don;t need to be directly with the Hardware manufacturer, they may well be with the OS manufacturer as a proxy. But it must be either the HW or the OS, nothing else would work. Simo. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
