Judge is old news [LWN.net]

Judge is old news

Posted Dec 25, 2025 17:57 UTC (Thu) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118)
Parent article: A partial ruling in the Vizio GPL suit

I thought that the key situation with v2 is long known. That's why GPLv3 was created 20 years ago, to prevent "tivoization".

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Judge is old news

Posted Dec 26, 2025 19:07 UTC (Fri) by ATLief (subscriber, #166135) [Link]

Later in the ruling the judge says: "However, nothing in the language of the Agreements requires Vizio to allow modified source code to be reinstalled on its devices while ensuring the devices remain operable after the source code is modified. If this was the intent of the Agreements, the Agreements could have been readily modified to state that users must be permitted to modify and reinstall modified software on products which use the program while ensuring the products continue to function."

That sounds exactly like the GPLv3.