vijay chopra wrote: > Again, like you, IANAL and haven't scrutinized the full text of GPLv3, > but from what I've read it seems to me that it actually limits the users > freedoms by limiting the hardware that it can run on; indeed the > tivoisation clause seems to go against the first of the FSFs self > proclaimed four freedoms. "the freedom to use the software for any > purpose".
The idea of the 'tivoisation' clause is to ensure that if you buy a piece of hardware that runs GPL licensed software, that the source code made available to you, by the manufacturer can be modified and run on the hardware. The issue with Tivo was, they'd give you the code, but if you wanted to run your own binaries on the unit, you couldn't. > Full disclosure: I'm intellectually bias against the GPL for other > reasons, so take anything I say on the matter with that in mind. Do tell. Disclaimer: I'm a campaigns manager at the Free Software Foundation.
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