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The chip design. It was a PVR box and an activist group wanted to opensource the DRM system they were using because they knew some important codes were baked in
by shubb 10y ago
The chip design. It was a PVR box and an activist group wanted to opensource the DRM system they were using because they knew some important codes were baked into the chip so they took them to court. The court felt that the functionality was shared between the GPL kernel driver and the chip, so the chip fell under GPL.
- shubb 10y agoI haven't been able to find any mention of this online. It was around 2009, and I may have misunderstood what I was being told...