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  • Vuraniute@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

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

  • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    2 months ago

    I love one of the clauses of gplv3 where if a user does not follow the gpl you may deny them their ability to use it forever.

    Would be funny to strike Nintendo with that. Or any other company that likes suing people work.

      • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        2 months ago

        Probably on Nintendo switch because of the hardware they use. But no idea at all. It was just an example.

        Companies want to enforce their licences strictly but when free software community asks them they are like: “ups mistake, sorry, forgive us”.

        Free software licences should be respected with the same degree as they so with privative ones.

  • cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    2 months ago

    I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my penguin go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      Reporting back… It was a good movie actually. I always assumed it was going to be silly or over the top but it was pretty believable and cathartic to watch these terrible bad guys get their shit ruined.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    What a confused image.

    1. TiVo complied with the GPLv2 and distributed source code for their modifications to Linux. What they did not do was distribute the cryptographic keys which would allow TiVo customers to run modified versions it on their TiVo devices. This is what motivated the so-called anti-tivoization clause in GPLv3 (the “Installation Information” part of Section 6. Conveying Non-Source Forms.).
    2. Linux remains GPLv2, so, everyone today still has the right to do the same thing TiVo did (shipping it in a product with a locked bootloader).
    3. Distributing Linux (or any GPLv2 software) with a threat of violence against recipients who exercise some of the rights granted by the license, as is depicted in this post, would be a violation section 6 of GPLv2 (“You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients’ exercise of the rights granted herein.”).