I came across a stackexchange thread asking if system root access will be required to be given to the user.

And the answer explaining the license and saying they needed to let the user be able to swap the libs on the system somehow.

And because I just joined the community and can’t comment there, here I am.

I feel like, the seller doesn’t really need to give root access to the user as long as they allow the user to copy said proprietary software on another system (and this act not be restricted by the license) and then do whatever they feel like, as long as the original system is immutated.

Thoughts?


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    4 months ago

    Anything that uses *GPLv3 license (which includes the anti-tivoization clause) has to have some way of swapping out those libraries.