tivoize

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tivoize (third-person singular simple present tivoizes, present participle tivoizing, simple past and past participle tivoized)

  1. (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.

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