The creation of a system that incorporatessoftware under the terms of a copyleft software license, but uses hardware to prevent users from running modified versions of the software on that hardware.
Origin
Coined by Richard Stallman in 2007, in reference to TiVo's use of GNU GPL-licensed software on the TiVo brand digital video recorders.
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