03-08-2008, 02:57 AM | #91 |
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Funny thing, after looking inside Bookeen firmware people on our IRC channel found that not only "platform" from the unknown OEM violates GPL, but also book reader which is copyrighted by Bookeen itself.
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In what way does the Boo Reader violate GPL? It goes back to the old CyBook. Definitely written by Bookeen (with info and/or code from MobiPocket).
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Well, the thing you quoted said GPL...
But it does not matter with respect to breaking GPL or LGPL since for LGPL it holds that: Quote:
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The Boo Reader binary definitely includes the pieces of the following:
1) glibc 2) libgcj 3) jpeglib 4) pnglib 5) zlib 6) boehm gc 7) freetype 8) mupdf 9) expat 10) IBM's ICU 11) fonts by URW 12) iconv And probably more not readily-identified libs. Not all of above is (L)GPL but enough, I think, to make them obliged to make source code available. Funny thing is that Mobipocket code is compiled in too (with gcj). I wonder if that means it'll have to be open-sourced too. |
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CAN YOU DAMN STOP GUESSING? Have a look at the binary. All the things mentioned ARE COMPILED INTO THE SINGLE BINARY.
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but "glibc" is the C runtime library, is it not?. Surely every C application has to include that, doesn't it? You aren't saying that every application that uses the C RTL has to give away its source code, are you? That would make writing commercial Linux applications impossible!
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So does Bookeen HAVE to give the Mobipocket code out along with the OS code under the terms of GPL? Can anyone give a definitive answer?
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