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Not really. GPLv3 will prevent hardware manufacturers from locking down their devices if they intend to ship Ubuntu Mobile. This is a good thing for users of th
by spacelizard 13y ago
Not really. GPLv3 will prevent hardware manufacturers from locking down their devices if they intend to ship Ubuntu Mobile. This is a good thing for users of those devices. I can't defend Canonical's support of proprietary drivers, especially on these devices that are known to be used for such pervasive spying, but at least a non-hardware-locked device allows for workarounds (i.e. deployment of your own free drivers).
- tga_d 13y agoI'm sorry, but must be missing something. How does a GPLv3 display server prevent locking down the hardware? Afaik, the anti-TiVoization stuff only applies to the software that's GPLv3, not the stack it's running on.
- dkuntz2 13y agoSome argue that if it makes calls to a GPL application, it's a derivative work, which means it must also be GPL. This means that if one part of the stack is GPL, everything higher must also be GPL.
- eltondegeneres 13y agoCan you point me towards some people arguing this? It's patently false. If it were true, every single application on your typical GNU/Linux box would also be GPL.
- wmf 13y agoGPLv3 will prevent hardware manufacturers from locking down their devices if they intend to ship Ubuntu Mobile. Actually the opposite; Canonical will sell phone vendors a non-GPL version of Mir so that they can lock down their phones.