OC please steal
You didn’t opt for Linux pro?? Starting at $49.99
Ubuntu pro says hi /s
I have a laptop with Ubuntu that won’t let me upgrade any of the actually important packages unless I pay for Ubuntu pro.
You know that Pro is actually free for something like 5 computers
Huh, good to know. I’m still going to install Debian next time I reinstall the os. Unless I can’t get it to work with my laptops weird chipset, then I guess it’s Arch.
Not only TiVO, IIRC Tecno (the phone company) is in violation of the GPL-2.0 too by not providing device trees.
What a confused image.
- TiVo complied with the GPLv2 and distributed source code for their modifications to Linux. What they did not do was distribute the cryptographic keys which would allow TiVo customers to run modified versions it on their TiVo devices. This is what motivated the so-called anti-tivoization clause in GPLv3 (the “Installation Information” part of Section 6. Conveying Non-Source Forms.).
- Linux remains GPLv2, so, everyone today still has the right to do the same thing TiVo did (shipping it in a product with a locked bootloader).
- Distributing Linux (or any GPLv2 software) with a threat of violence against recipients who exercise some of the rights granted by the license, as is depicted in this post, would be a violation section 6 of GPLv2 (“You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients’ exercise of the rights granted herein.”).
In other words, it is an authorized copy.
Well now did Mister Torvalds come to my house and expressly say that I could use it?
I don’t think that’s convenient for him. Let’s email him for his consent.