http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2007/07/gplv3-is-anti-tivoisation-flawed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gplv3-is-anti-tivoisation-flawed Distilling market noise into market sense. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:37:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2007/07/gplv3-is-anti-tivoisation-flawed/comment-page-1/#comment-17803 Dominic Sweetman Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:54:06 +0000 http://visionmobile.com/blog/2007/07/gplv3-is-anti-tivoisation-flawed/#comment-17803 When I read GPLv3 I assumed that "ROM" in the anti-Tivoisation section was used literally to mean a 'read-only memory' -- a hard-coded chip. Anything you can update over-the-air or otherwise is a writable chip. Names like "PROM" and "EEPROM" are used for chips which require some special procedure to overwrite. You're right that this clause in GPLv3 would be nonsense if "ROM" includes "EEPROM". When I read GPLv3 I assumed that "ROM" in the anti-Tivoisation section was used literally to mean a 'read-only memory' — a hard-coded chip. Anything you can update over-the-air or otherwise is a writable chip. Names like "PROM" and "EEPROM" are used for chips which require some special procedure to overwrite. You're right that this clause in GPLv3 would be nonsense if "ROM" includes "EEPROM".

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