Ok.
Ask your lawyer yourself first.
The thread is exactly about the same.
Making money on community developed Linux based projects
and corporate ownership of such projects.
Hardware key locked embedded hardware is exactly the way to
x-transfer ownership of any community developed project (open source)
to manufacturer of any such embedded hardware.
Darius
--- On Sat, 3/5/08, Ryan Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Ryan Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Opensource locked by hardware key was Re: Corporate ownership of open source projects [LWN]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org, "Luca Olivetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, 3 May, 2008, 7:51
PM
Darius Jack wrote:
> ...
> sorry
> (cut for clarity)
>
> I the meantime I was contacted and learneed that offered software
> was opensource (no GNU Open Sourrce licence included).
> Unfortunately software - firmware for Wifi Access Points
> is offered hardware key locked
> from the following web page
>
> http://approsoftware.com/
>
> I would like to know your opinion
> if opensource software (GNU Open Source licence (not included)
> intended for Linux OS,
> can be hardware key locked
> to disable its functions.
>
> Acting that way, any opensource software for Linux can be
> hardware key locked
> and sold for fee as a commercial product
> restricted access sourcees provided or not.
>
> Darius
>
Ask your lawyer and don't hijack threads.
--
Ryan
Pavlik
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