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Re:Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War? by HideousKojima on Saturday October 08, 2022 @12:43AM (#33129826)
It means they have to make any locked-down devices they sell not-locked-down due to the anti-tivoization part of the GPLv3
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Re:Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War? by varajelle on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:21AM (#33130476)
GPLv3 also has extra patent clauses
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Re:Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War? by pabs3 on Saturday October 08, 2022 @06:01AM (#33131109)
GPLv2 also as those provisions:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t...

In addition, even the GPLv3 allows what Tivo did (break proprietary software when GPL software is updated:

https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...

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