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Multiple ways to comply
Authored by: pem on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 12:59 AM EDT
If the OEM's providing Canonical's bootloader, then the pre-enrolled key in the BIOS works as-is. And since the OEM isn't distributing user-modified bootloaders, the OEM has no obligation to disclose signing keys for them.
If the OEM is providing a bootloader licensed under GPL v3, then they are required to provide the user a way to replace that bootloader if the bootloader is replaceable. (E.g. if it is in ROM, it's a different story.)
Their only obligation is to not pick hardware that won't allow them to comply with copyright law (well, that's not so much an obligation as a "If you do that you're in legal trouble, so don't." thing).
And the legal trouble only comes from the intersection of a GPL v3 bootloader with a locked down system. Canonical has decided that the easy path that works in all cases for them is to remove GPL v3 from the equation.

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About the warranty
Authored by: pem on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 01:01 AM EDT
If Canonical delivers a bootloader update during the machine's warranty period,
and they were contracted to do so by the machine vendor, that might be
considered to be part of the original transaction.

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