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    OC please steal

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    [–] [email protected] 88 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Not only TiVO, IIRC Tecno (the phone company) is in violation of the GPL-2.0 too by not providing device trees.

    [–] [email protected] 74 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Tons of companies are shipping Linux without giving users access to the source code, it's just that only one has the term "Tivoization" named after it.

    [–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Huh, Linux uses GPLv2? Does anyone have any info about why?

    Edit: Found a video https://youtu.be/PaKIZ7gJlRU. Makes sense. Complete freedom to use and modify the software means freedom to use the software in a proprietary device with DRM, as long as you still give the changes to the public.

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago

    Thats false! There is already a link to the wikipedia article, but here is the relevant quote: „but uses hardware restrictions or digital rights management (DRM) to prevent users from running modified versions of the software on that hardware.“

    It is not a violation of the GPL 2, the license of the Linux kernel, but only the GPL 3 which was basically created for this case. Linus Torvalds is a big defender of the GPL 2 and said that Tivo provided good patches for the hardware they used.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    Speaking of violators, North Korea is in violation of GPL 2.0 since they didn't provide me the source code of the kernel when I asked for them for it.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

    Did you get a kernel binary from them? If not, I don't think they're bound to you by GPL.