Re: mea culpa on the meaning of Tivoization

Alexandre Oliva
2007-06-18T21:19:55Z

On Jun 18, 2007, Hans-Jürgen Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> wrote:

>> Vendor would be entitled to the benefit of the doubt as to the
>> motivations in this case, so it would likely be unenforceable anyway.

> Right. If GPL v3 comes out, there'll probably be a new task for
> hardware development engineers: How to find excuses for hardware that
> prevents software modifications and how to conceal the true intent.

Yup. And then GPLv4 will have to plug whatever holes they find to
disrespect users' freedoms. That's how I expect the game to be
played.

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