Tivoize
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Tivoize is a verb meaning (computing, transitive) (of a hardware system) To use software under the terms of a copyleft software license, but at the same time to impose a hardware limitations to prevent users from running the modified versions of this software on that hardware, which should be allowed under the terms of the same license.
Meaning
(computing, transitive) (of a hardware system) To use software under the terms of a copyleft software license, but at the same time to impose a hardware limitations to prevent users from running the modified versions of this software on that hardware, which should be allowed under the terms of the same license.
Word Forms
- tivoizes
- tivoizing
- tivoized
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include copyleft, virtualize, paravirtualize, sherlock, softmod, time-share.
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