mistake on tivoisation

Xavi Drudis Ferran xdrudis at tinet.cat
Wed Dec 20 09:41:59 UTC 2006


I said:

> It could even contaminate genral free software. Guess one of the
> subscribers ports a fre eprogram to the console. Then the program is free
> and runs on non-tivoised computers but it additionally runs in computers
> that don't obey their owners (because they don't pay subscription). If ht
> GPL3 prevents this, then it menas the proting patches can't be applied to
> GPL3d soft and
> the console gets less software for subscribers, so you are slighly
> damaging the network value of the console, which is likely what you want.
>

Sorry I guess this does not apply since the game console wouldn't be the "
recommended or principal context of use". So GPLv3 would not prevent
distribution of that software. Otherwise it could be used to launch DoL
attacks against free software (Denial of License attacks, I just made that
up).







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