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| Authored by: pem on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 07:00 PM EDT |
| If they do, GPL v3 would seem to require them to make sure the key is available,
not the OEM.
This may or may not be true, but nothing in the "response" from
the FSF seems to address this concern, so my money is on it being true and the
FSF studiously ignoring it.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 10:16 PM EDT |
The OEM is free to preload a third public key and give out the
private key for
that, which would allow the owner of the computer to compile
software and sign
it so it could run. Or to provide a way for the owner of the
computer to
generate their own key and load it.
From the
article:
It's also a problem because the Windows 8 Logo program
currently mandates Restricted Boot on all ARM systems, which includes popular
computer types like tablets and phones. It says that users must not be able to
disable the boot restrictions or use their own signing keys.
So if
I'm Dell and want to create a custom BIOS for my device that allows for other
keys, I could do that. But if I'm an company that is taking a Dell device and
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