Hardware as license
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Hardware as license is short for a principle which might be stated more fully as:
If piece of hardware requires a certain piece of software in order to function as advertised, and that software will only work on that hardware, then possession of the hardware should be regarded as a license to use the software.
Following this principle, anyone who can make use of the software in question therefore has the right to use it -- so the software may be publicly posted, regardless of license restrictions, since only those with the right to use it will be able to do so.
Related
This has a lot of overlap with the principle that hardware should not be held hostage, but differs in that it has implications for how the software may be shared rather than how it may be used.