alt Hacker NewsTBF if Google locked down the devices like that it would be a GPL violation. Not their first or whatever but still, there's a reason for them not to do that beside "being nice"
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fluidcruft • today at 12:38 AM
Not really. Tivo did that eons ago. Whether you view this as a "flaw" or "feature" of GPLv2 it's ultimately why GPLv3 now exists.
The Linux kernel developers see what Tivo did as a "feature" rather than a "flaw" and refuse GPLv3.
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Would it? IANAL, but AIUI the only GPL component is Linux on GPLv2 which requires providing code but not giving the ability to install it