Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial
arstechnica.comSo, hide it behind multiple companies, and you will be fine? Should just share the source code.
I think the first thing I'd do would be to reflash the TV and turn it into an X terminal. Or the Wayland equivalent.
Winning this case doesn't do what people think it will do...
They still have the right to lock down the TV using cryptography to prevent unsigned code. That's covered by the DMCA as illegal to circumvent.
That sounds like a GPLv2 violation:
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t...
Not all countries have a DMCA
Super useful list here:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/dmca-igno...
In most countries you won't get in trouble for overriding hardware protections under right-to-repair or fair-use regulations.