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This is already an issue with LGPL v2

This is already an issue with LGPL v2

Posted Jan 3, 2008 5:46 UTC (Thu) by stevenj (subscriber, #421)
In reply to: This is already an issue with LGPL v2 by JoeBuck
Parent article: Wild predictions for 2008

Just as for the GPLv2, it is debatable whether this clause has any teeth when there is a hardware-signature mechanism that prevents replacement code from working. Certainly, the FSF was worried enough about this "Tivoization" loophole to explicitly address it in v3 of the license.


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