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  • Vuraniute@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    3 months ago

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

    • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      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.

      • boonhet@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

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

    • f00f/eris@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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.

      • julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 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.