The GPL is there because tivos run a linux kernel and im sure they use
more gpl utilities as well, although they do have some proprietary
software that they wrote that does most of the work. As far as hacking
up the tivo to do that im not sure. There are a few communities around
dedicated to hacking the tivo and such. One is http://tivocommunity.com
and they have an "underground" forum.

On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 12:54:34AM -0700, Rob Wultsch wrote:
> I picked up a tivo over the weekend (Hughes HDVR2, directv series 2...) 
> for 100 bucks and though I have yet to power it up, I have gone thought 
> the box and was surprised at what I found in terms of software license crap.
> 
> In the back of the tivo user manual the GPL is there in it's entirety.
> Attached to the tivo is a card saying the software may not be 
> downloaded, decompiled, put into machine readable form...
> It seems odd that there are two seemingly incompatible license attached 
> to the same devices.
> 
> If anyone out there is much of a tivo person, I am wondering if it is 
> easily possible to get it to act as a
> 1. DHCP server (the tivo should have more uptime and less time being 
> fussed with than anything else)?
> 2. A samba server (so that my music may be played on any other computer 
> without slowing down the hard drive/ taking up space)
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