ambiguity
ambiguity
Posted Dec 26, 2025 2:10 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: ambiguity by DeletedUser128680
Parent article: A partial ruling in the Vizio GPL suit
The image created by the original scripts is very likely specific to a certain TV model. Which means there is no "other device" that can run an unsigned image. So what does "installation of the executable" mean when there is no device that can run it? Debatable.
What is not debatable: the GPLv3 was very clearly designed to stop "Tivoization", because the GPLv2 clearly did not take it into account. So, projects not upgrading and taking a v2 versus v3 stance are OK with Tivoization. Spirit of the license versus letter of the license?
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