For anyone looking for GPLv3 explanations:

Posted Sep 24, 2006 9:26 UTC (Sun) by petegn (guest, #847)
In reply to: For anyone looking for GPLv3 explanations: by ibukanov
Parent article: Kernel developers' position on GPLv3

I am not a developer apart from a minor hack of the floppy driver for my perticular Mother board (an old 386 baseed bord some years ago) but it strikes me this whole thing needs looking at in a slightly different direction

The question of the Tivo'ised software quite simple in reality

You choose to use open sourced software in your device (the maker this is to ) therefore you are not allowed to encode , encrypt or other such methods ANY part of the code or systems used no keys to do this that or other .

As for DRM well if enough people could be bothered to act on the problem it would be dealt with in short order but too many people are of the "SHEEP" breed and blindly follow ,If the "SHEEP" would remove the BLINKERS the the content providers would soon be wetting there collective nappies because there would be NO income for them because no one would be buying ther vcrap to start with .

but alas we live in a world dominated by "SHEEP" and "SHEEP SH*****S" that contine to milk said "SHEEP"

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For anyone looking for GPLv3 explanations:

Posted Sep 25, 2006 16:01 UTC (Mon) by sepreece (guest, #19270) [Link]

Most users are just that - users. They don't particularly care about using content in ways that the DRM systems prevent (though some of the proposed next-gen systems will probably irritate more of them). But, by all means, educate the users and try to get them to push back on the content providers.

The trade off you are asking for (if you use free software, you cannot keep people from modifying it in the device) is not generally agreed to be part of GPLv2 (though some people do believe it was in the spirit or intention of v2, many others do not). The kernel developers' letter expressed their opinion that it should not be part of the mainstream GPL in the future, either.

So, the choice you posit in your third paragraph is not a fact, it is a question to be resolved in the debate over GPLv3...