Friday, February 3, 2006

More on GPL v3 from Torvalds -- 9:43 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Linus Torvalds made several more posts to the Linux Kernel Mailing List, further explaining the problems that he has with the forthcoming GPL v3. Once again, more good stuff. Here's a snip:

Notice how the current GPLv3 draft pretty clearly says that Red Hat would have to distribute their private keys so that anybody sign their own versions of the modules they recompile, in order to re-create their own versions of the signed binaries that Red Hat creates. That's INSANE.

Btw, what about signed RPM archives? How well do you think a secure auto-updater would work if it cannot trust digital signatures?

I think that Stallman and co. have their hearts in the right place by wanting to fight against DRM. Torvalds (and I too for that matter) isn't so sure it's the best way to go about it. Thanks Slashdot.

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