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7mo ago

Linux "Anti"-Piracy Screen

OC please steal

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- I enabled testing repos for KDE 6.0 early access, and they include an overlay like this that says it's a test release
  Despite thinking that was a good idea, it felt a little like this, lol
- Can i change the text

Not only TiVO, IIRC Tecno (the phone company) is in violation of the GPL-2.0 too by not providing device trees.
- Tons of companies are shipping Linux without giving users access to the source code, it's just that only one has the term "Tivoization" named after it.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
  
  Thats false! There is already a link to the wikipedia article, but here is the relevant quote: „but uses hardware restrictions or digital rights management (DRM) to prevent users from running modified versions of the software on that hardware.“
  It is not a violation of the GPL 2, the license of the Linux kernel, but only the GPL 3 which was basically created for this case. Linus Torvalds is a big defender of the GPL 2 and said that Tivo provided good patches for the hardware they used.
- Speaking of violators, North Korea is in violation of GPL 2.0 since they didn't provide me the source code of the kernel when I asked for them for it.
  
  Did you get a kernel binary from them? If not, I don't think they're bound to you by GPL.

I love one of the clauses of gplv3 where if a user does not follow the gpl you may deny them their ability to use it forever.
Would be funny to strike Nintendo with that. Or any other company that likes suing people work.
- Have Nintendo ever used GPL software?
  
  Probably on Nintendo switch because of the hardware they use. But no idea at all. It was just an example.
  Companies want to enforce their licences strictly but when free software community asks them they are like: "ups mistake, sorry, forgive us".
  Free software licences should be respected with the same degree as they so with privative ones.
  
  They use xmpp as their messaging system I think. Xmpp is open source, but I am not sure about the licence used.
  
  They use WebKit that uses a rendering engine, JavaScript engine underLGPLv2.1 in the switch.

In other words, it is an authorized copy.
- Well now did Mister Torvalds come to my house and expressly say that I could use it?
  
  I don't think that's convenient for him. Let's email him for his consent.

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my penguin go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
- Reporting back... It was a good movie actually. I always assumed it was going to be silly or over the top but it was pretty believable and cathartic to watch these terrible bad guys get their shit ruined.
  
  So, you would recommend it to the average viewer?
- I have never seen that movie but this was the last straw. I'm gonna watch it now haha
  
  what movie?

Seems like he'd prefer v3 then.

I clicked on this because I thought it was gonna be a spoopy jumpscare anti-piracy screen but I was pleasantly surprised.
There are a disturbing amount of little kids posting homemade anti-piracy screens for things that are free.
- I came across a bunch of those recently, which is how I came up with the idea for this, as a parody :)
  Internet horror is disappointingly un-creative. I have no idea why the weakest works (sonic.exe, anti-piracy, kill screens) always end up becoming huge trends, or why so few people try to put a significant twist on said trends.
  
  I think it has to do with the age of the target audience? I remember being absolutely terrified and morbidly fascinated by sonic.exe and similar when I was in middle school. What might seem weak/shallow/uncreative to an adult might actually be extremely interesting to someone younger.

You wouldn't download a Linux kernal..
Would you?

What a confused image.
TiVo complied with the GPLv2 and distributed source code for their modifications to Linux. What they did not do was distribute the cryptographic keys which would allow TiVo customers to run modified versions it on their TiVo devices. This is what motivated the so-called anti-tivoization clause in GPLv3 (the "Installation Information" part of Section 6. Conveying Non-Source Forms.).
Linux remains GPLv2, so, everyone today still has the right to do the same thing TiVo did (shipping it in a product with a locked bootloader).
Distributing Linux (or any GPLv2 software) with a threat of violence against recipients who exercise some of the rights granted by the license, as is depicted in this post, would be a violation section 6 of GPLv2 ("You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.").
- Promising to "find someone" is not a threat much less a restriction of rights. Maybe OP is compiling a list of locked-down devices to avoid, that's perfectly in their rights, and it's also in their rights to inform people of such an endeavour.
  
  You may be joking, in which case: Fair game.
  If not.... come on. In what world do you write "(...) I'll find you. Mark my words." In that kind of context without being (at least humorously) threatening?

Which system/distribution/device does show this message?
- I think this is fabricated but still very true
  
  Yeah, it's fake, and as other commenters have pointed out, it's also inaccurate to how the GPLv2 works. It was not meant to convince anyone.

So it actually is authorized

isn't mac based on Linux also?
- OS X is (at this point loosely) based on BSD. I think you can still get Darwin (the open source part of OS )X somewhere...
  
  https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu
  Though if we are using the brand UNIX, macos is one of the few UNIX brand products out there
  https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
  The BSD family has evolved, and while not having the Unix trademark, does have its roots in the same codebase

Ql wallpaper.

wait is this real ik am on a linux meme community
- of course not!
  
  Oh

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