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    [–] Vuraniute@thelemmy.club 87 points 3 months 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.

    [–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 74 points 3 months 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@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)
    [–] rbits@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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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