GPLv3 will prevent "tivoization" by insisting that freedom No. 1, the freedom to modify the program to do what you wish, is real and not a sham. ❋ Unknown (2006)
When free software gets embroiled with all this stuff, it’s called tivoization isn’t it? ❋ Unknown (2009)
GPL v3 specifically forbids this tactic which the FSF found quite offensive, and rightfully so (in fact, they call it "tivoization"). ❋ Unknown (2010)
Because quite a few changes have been made since the previous draft and important new issues have surfaced, the drafting process has been changes in this draft include refinements in the "tivoization" provisions to eliminate unwanted side effects, revision of the patent provisions to prevent end-runs around the license, and further steps toward compatibility with other free software licenses. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I wrote GPL version 3 to protect users from 'tivoization' because I'm a free software activist, and Torvalds chose to leave the users vulnerable to ❋ Unknown (2009)
Thus, one of the many improvements I decided on in GPL version 3 (written 2005-2007) was to bar 'tivoization'. ❋ Unknown (2009)
If 'tivoization' was an important weapon in the attacker's arsenal, we could not dare treat it as unimportant. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I became aware of the issue somewhere around 2000, and after a few years of reflection, concluded that 'tivoization' of a program, practically speaking, makes the program non-free. ❋ Unknown (2009)
'tivoization' reduces freedom 1 to a theoretical fiction. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The reason I hope Torvalds will decide to adopt GPLv3 is to make Linux resistant to "tivoization." ❋ Unknown (2006)
- GPL version 3 adds anti-tivoization measures, as explained much better than I could myself there:, because I'm not really a specialist on license matters. ❋ Chovy (2010)
All that tivoization stuff that gets the Trusted Computing Group excited. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Face it: if copy” right” terms were shorter (say 11 years), and after that thinks went into the public domain — like we CLAIM to want — then, for example, Stallman wouldn’t be able to use GPL version 3 to stop “tivoization”, and you wouldn’t have been able to get Ares to stop scraping p2pnet for content, OR force them to attribute it. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Face it: if copy”right” terms were shorter say 11 years, and after that thinks went into the public domain — like we CLAIM to want — then, for example, Stallman wouldn’t be able to use GPL version 3 to stop “tivoization”, and you wouldn’t have been able to get Ares to stop scraping p2pnet for content, OR force them to attribute it. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We’ve already seen some companies trying to use different methods to restrict it: via software patents, tivoization, etc. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The effect is comparable to tivoization, although not quite so hard to overcome, "he said. ❋ Unknown (2009)
