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Someone else previously posted saying that the boordr application also included GPL code (meaning Bookeen themselves would be violating), but I haven't checked that myself... Last edited by Murleen; 04-23-2008 at 02:51 PM. |
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That all said... How do you know that Bookeen modified and distributed that modified GPLed software? Writting an app that runs on Linux and releasing it in no way requires that source code to be licensed under GPL also. BOb |
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Of course it's possible that Bookeen has paid for a commercial license for some of this software - maybe someone could ask the original authors. |
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I still haven't see incontrivertable proof that bookeen has modified and distributed GPL software. Has anyone just asked bookeen about it? BOb |
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They are distributing GPLed software and they have to provide the source code. |
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If they have modified source code, they have to provide patches. If they did not, they have to provide links to exact versions of software they compiled and distributed. Full stop. |
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05-01-2008, 12:19 PM | #162 | |
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I'm rather sure that the Cybook is nothing but a Netronix EB-100. Having both now, I can compare them side-by-side. I also have the customs declaration of the Netronix and in it they specifically call the hardware by the internal part number "Bookeen ED060KB" as well as by the reference "EB0100". Looking at my Cybook Gen3, I note on the back a label with the part number "ED060KB2". Also, when I first attached my EB-100 to my WinPC on Tuesday, Windows declared itself to have found a new "Cybook" on the USB port I was using. If this is the case, then I can only say that there's a good chance that Bookeen bought a developer's package from Netronix in order to gain access to the SDK and that part and parcel of that developer's package may well be a legal document requiring them to not freely distribute anything included in the SDK to others outside the firm - but I don't *KNOW* this to be true. However, I could always find out if I bought one of the developer's packages myself. I'm not flush with the money needed (They run about $3,000.) or I would do so. Until someone does do so, it's pretty much worthless to discuss as we don't have all the facts. Derek |
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If you modify GPL licensed software and you only use it internally then there is NO requirement to distribute the modified software. So, it DOES matter if the software is distributed. Of course, shipping the device is the equivilent of distrbuting the software. Quote:
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I just found out that a company has a copy of a GPL'ed program, and it costs money to get it. Aren't they violating the GPL by not making it available on the Internet? No. The GPL does not require anyone to use the Internet for distribution. It also does not require anyone in particular to redistribute the program. And (outside of one special case), even if someone does decide to redistribute the program sometimes, the GPL doesn't say he has to distribute a copy to you in particular, or any other person in particular. What the GPL requires is that he must have the freedom to distribute a copy to you if he wishes to. Once the copyright holder does distribute a copy program to someone, that someone can then redistribute the program to you, or to anyone else, as he sees fit. BOb |
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We have the facts: reverse-engineering gives traces of GPLed software. NOTHING ELSE MATTER: any NDAs, SDKs or any other crap. IT IS IRRELEVANT DID THEY SIGN ANYTHING. Bookeen distributes GPL-ed software without giving full instructions of how to build it.
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