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Roku’s Ultimatum: Surrender Jury Trial Rights or Lose Access to Your TVs
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That's not quite the issue.
First of all, the GPL requires you to make the source available if you distribute the software, whether you modify it or not. And in fact TV manufacturers do provide source code, if you dig through their websites to find the disused basement lavatory with the sign saying "beware of the leopard."
Second, the issue is that the source code isn't actually going to work if you try to compile it and install it on the device, because they have DRM to prevent anything other than what the manufacturer has cryptographically signed from being allowed to run. See also: Tivoization.
That's correct. My response was intended to point out proprietary software can run on Linux and GPL doesn't apply.
I have read arguments in favor of GPL v2 over v3 and found them unconvincing.
Linux will never go to GPLv3 because Linus is pussywhipped by the Foundation and it's sponsors