Article explaining tivoisation

Ciaran O'Riordan ciaran at fsfe.org
Tue Dec 19 13:57:23 UTC 2006


Alex Hudson <home at alexhudson.com> writes:
> the "Tivoisation" clause can affect those people just distributing
> software

Just distributing is never enough to make that clause kick in.  The clause
adds a requirement if some keys are necessary in order to install/modify/run
the software.  Keys will only ever be necessary if you have arranged with
the hardware manufacturer for them to be necessary.



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