OC please steal
wait is this real ik am on a linux meme community
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of course not!
Oh
What a confused image.
- TiVo complied with the GPLv2 and distributed source code for their modifications to Linux. What they did not do was distribute the cryptographic keys which would allow TiVo customers to run modified versions it on their TiVo devices. This is what motivated the so-called anti-tivoization clause in GPLv3 (the "Installation Information" part of Section 6. Conveying Non-Source Forms.).
- Linux remains GPLv2, so, everyone today still has the right to do the same thing TiVo did (shipping it in a product with a locked bootloader).
- Distributing Linux (or any GPLv2 software) with a threat of violence against recipients who exercise some of the rights granted by the license, as is depicted in this post, would be a violation section 6 of GPLv2 ("You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.").
Promising to "find someone" is not a threat much less a restriction of rights. Maybe OP is compiling a list of locked-down devices to avoid, that's perfectly in their rights, and it's also in their rights to inform people of such an endeavour.
You may be joking, in which case: Fair game.
If not.... come on. In what world do you write "(...) I'll find you. Mark my words." In that kind of context without being (at least humorously) threatening?
Counsel concedes that the statement may have been humorously threatening. That, however, does not affect the issue of said action not constituting any form of tort that could be reasonably considered a restriction of rights opposing counsel's client may hold.
So it actually is authorized
You wouldn't download a Linux kernal..
Would you?
Which system/distribution/device does show this message?
I think this is fabricated but still very true
Yeah, it's fake, and as other commenters have pointed out, it's also inaccurate to how the GPLv2 works. It was not meant to convince anyone.
Seems like he'd prefer v3 then.
isn't mac based on Linux also?
OS X is (at this point loosely) based on BSD. I think you can still get Darwin (the open source part of OS )X somewhere...
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu
Though if we are using the brand UNIX, macos is one of the few UNIX brand products out there
https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
The BSD family has evolved, and while not having the Unix trademark, does have its roots in the same codebase
lunix
That's funny, because XNU stands for X is not Unix
In other words, it is an authorized copy.
Well now did Mister Torvalds come to my house and expressly say that I could use it?
I don't think that's convenient for him. Let's email him for his consent.
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