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Note that allowing this is 100% intended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8&t=47m20s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8&t=47m20s
by j1elo 6y ago
Note that allowing this is 100% intended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8&t=47m20s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8&t=47m20s
- ramshorns 6y agoYeah, though a really strict reading of GPLv2's "the scripts used to control compilation and installation" might suggest that it's not, since maybe the source code has to include the signing key to get it onto the device. But I don't think anyone's dying on that hill, they just made a new license.
- smichel17 6y agoI believe Bradley Kuhn does subscribe to this interpretation of GPLv2, based on watching this talk he gave at LibrePlanet 2020 https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/preventing-the-iot-dystopia-with-copyleft/ https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/preventing-the... First slide on the topic at 13:55 Returns to the slide at 17:20 If I remember correctly, somewhere else in the talk he says something like, "I don't think we need GPLv3 for this", but I don't remember where (earlier or later) and don't have time to re-watch the whole talk to hunt for it right now. (edit: although I think he still prefers v3 / thinks it is stronger. Really you should just watch the talk instead of taking my memory of what he said for granted)