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by miki123211
276 days ago
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Open source has nothing to do with hackability. Firmware which requires updates to be signed with a manufacturer key can still be open source. As long as its code is available publicly, under a license which lets the user create derivative works, it meets the definition. You can still make a version of it that doesn't contain that check, you just can't install that version on the device you bought from the original firmware developer. Some FIDO keys (and I think Bitcoin wallets) do this. |
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That's not universally true, it depends on the license we're talking about.
As an arbitrary counterexample, the LGPL specifically requires you to give end users of your thing a way to link your object code with their own modified version of the LGPL'd library.