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TiVo Warns the GPLv3 Could Hurt Its Business

Publication:GuardianDate:Jun 04 2007
Reporter:Jack Schofield

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Since the main point of the Free Software Foundation's new GPL3 (General Public License 3) is to prevent "TiVo-isation," this surely does not come as a surprise. However, Information Week reports that in an SEC filing, TiVo says: "If the currently proposed version of GPLv3 is widely adopted, we may be unable to incorporate future enhancements to the GNU/Linux operating system into our software, which could adversely affect our business."
 

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