Article explaining tivoisation

simo simo.sorce at xsec.it
Tue Dec 19 14:19:58 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 13:57 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
> 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.

While I agree arrangements must be in place, they don;t need to be
directly with the Hardware manufacturer, they may well be with the OS
manufacturer as a proxy.
But it must be either the HW or the OS, nothing else would work.

Simo.




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