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I think modernity has complicated things. The proprietary vendor signing all the binary components to prevent tampering is different from the platform package manager and kernel requiring signed packages/pages. If you have the proprietary blob and a bunch of modified third party dynamically loaded components, you (or the platform) can re-generate your own signature over the modified composition to execute it in {context that requires signed code execution for security/integrity}. The LGPL is addressing the former. I don’t see a spirited problem with the latter.


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