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> Think for example deploying on a kiosk. I thought that it depended upon who owns the kiosk and if software upgrades are a normal part of its operation?

• LoSboccacc 11y ago
  it's worded so that any end user has a license to your code (to prevent tivoization)
  • JupiterMoon 11y ago
    Sounds absolutely within the spirit of what the GPL was intended to achieve. What would be unfair is if a user of a photo booth kiosk was allowed to flash the firmware...
    • LoSboccacc 11y ago
      Yes it works pretty well for that, I am not saying it doesn't. I'm arguing it has impractical consequences
      • belorn 11y ago
        What is the impractical consequences if you sold a photo booth kiosk and had to give the recipient the source code for the internal software? I would assume that photo booth kiosks producers got their money from selling the physical kiosk and competition on the internal kiosk software is going be at best an minor advantage. Management software or similar could still be proprietary, through competitors could make management software that is compatible with those kiosks, which is a good thing in my book. Customers of the kiosks however have no such right to source code, since they don't receive any copies of the software from using it. You enter, you insert a coin/cc, and out comes a photo and maybe a code which allow you to download the image to your phone. Neither is "copies" of the kiosk internal software so the license doesn't involve them.