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Black and white terminal with an ASCII art picture of Tux and this text: Sharing is caring! This is an unauthorized copy of the Linux kernel, and that's awesome! It is greatly encouraged to copy free software under the GNU GPL. Please continue using your system, and consider sharing Linux with your friends, too! But if you try to make a locked-down, proprietary version of Linux like those assholes at TiVO, I'll find you. Mark my words.
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[–] [S] 74 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years 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.

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