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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 month ago (6 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] 73 points 1 month ago (3 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.

[–] wreckedcarzz 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

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