"Tivoization" and Your Right to Install Under Copyleft - Conservancy Blog
by Bradley M. Kuhn on July 23, 2021 Two schools of thought about the purpose of copyleft have been at odds for some time. Simply put, the question is: are copyleft licenses designed primarily to protect the rights of large companies that produce electronics and software products, or is copyleft designed primarily to protect individual users rights to improve, modify, repair, and reinstall their software? This debate quickly gets deep into complex policy questions. In the last fe...
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