Well, it's precisely because of the advantages of copyleft for the end
user that it's important to keep it, even if the license doesn't prevent
digital handcuffs (lock down).
In *my* opinion, it would also be benefical if Linux switches to GNU GPL
3+. However, this is a wild and *personal* guess.
Tivoization is a problem, for sure-- but as it stands, LineageOS and
AplineLinux developers (etc) only have to work around the hardware/software
restrictions on flashing a new kernel.
Having to work against those *and* now even having the kernel, ports like
that will be very difficult and
I largely agree- with Torvald's refusal to add legal weight to his license,
the significance of copyleft in this case seems to be rather limited
(although I'm no copyright lawyer- please correct any misconceptions
displayed here).
On the other hand, using Linux may at least lead/bind
Moglen is a king. That vid you linked is highly recommended. +1
How? Is not like Fuchsia is proprietary software.
It is not like GPv2 prevents Tivotization of devices. And Smartphones are not
libre at all.
So... What is there to be lost?
Indeed, Fuchsia isn't a good thing, the loss of copyleft in smartphones
(even if today not fully compliant) could represent a real loss for
free/libre software movement.
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Fuchsia is NOT a good thing.
Eben Moglen talked about it at LibrePlanet.
https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/the-free-software-movement-in-the-age-of-trump/
Unfortunately, the installation instructions reveal on re-reading that there
isn't a replacement. Step 5 of
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/magenta/+/master/docs/targets/rpi3.md#Installing
requires downloading a 'bootcode.bin' file from the Raspberry Pi firmware
repository on GitHub and
If so, that would be amazing! Let's hope this turns out to be what is needed.
I'm fairly certain there's a replacement included in Fuchsia. I saw something
about a free booting firmware as well. I'm home now with my RPi3 right in
front of me, so I'll read the documentation, give it a shot and then post my
findings here.
It looks promising! Unfortunately, though, the kernel isn't the problem (as
far as I know, anyway) that prevents the RPi from even booting with 100% free
software: it's the boot-up firmware that has to be loaded before the kernel.
This is beyond the OS's control, and as far as I can tell is
You may have heard about Google's new kernel, Magenta. I recently saw a blog
post about it running on the RPi3, and I was curious to see if it was blobbed
to hell like the Linux kernel for the same hardware. To my surprise, it
doesn't appear to be, and the only things that aren't working are
My bad, that's the documentation page... This is what I meant to link:
https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta
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