Could we kindly use the new thread subject proposed in this email (or something similar) so I can distinguish the licensing debate from messages about the status of the uutils and coreutils packages in Debian? I'm interested in the latter, I'm not really interested in the former at all.
-- Aaron On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 1:00 AM Andrej Shadura <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > On Wed, 15 Jul 2026, at 20:16, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > I think Tivo *did* do something wrong. Their use of DRM to prevent users > > from > > installing new software on their hardware is fundamentally in conflict with > > the principles of the DFSG. Specifically, it is in conflict with #3, > > derived > > works, because Tivo was using DRM to prevent derived works from being > > installed on the hardware. > > Tivo did *not* prevent software from being installed on the hardware. > Instead, they allowed your own software being installed, but disabled the > *proprietary* software they shipped if you did. > > -- > Cheers, > Andrej >
