The FSF has always explained clearly exactly why the GPL is the way it is. TiVo decided to use a legal loophole to take away people's freedom to modify the code on their TiVos and distribute the modifications for other people to run on their TiVos.
In other words, TiVo deliberately attempted to violate the entire purpose of the license. Now the loophole is being closed. Poor TiVo, they won't be able to leech from the free software community any more.
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mathew @ Jun 4th 2007 12:32PM
The FSF has always explained clearly exactly why the GPL is the way it is. TiVo decided to use a legal loophole to take away people's freedom to modify the code on their TiVos and distribute the modifications for other people to run on their TiVos.
In other words, TiVo deliberately attempted to violate the entire purpose of the license. Now the loophole is being closed. Poor TiVo, they won't be able to leech from the free software community any more.