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Re: [News] Linux-based Portable Media Player Contributes Back

  • Subject: Re: [News] Linux-based Portable Media Player Contributes Back
  • From: Kier <vallon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:18:18 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • References: <1280276.6UmuhRdYgB@schestowitz.com> <4n3ja4-a1t.ln1@ellandroad.demon.co.uk>
  • User-agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.)
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:495648
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:58:12 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Archos Releases 604, 604 Wi-Fi Firmware Into to Open Source
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Thanks to the fact that Archos used GPL and LGPL code in constructing
>>| their firmware for the Archos 604 and 604 Wi-Fi devices, they're
>>| forced to release just about the source code for said firmware
>>| into the public domain.
>> `----
>> 
>> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/archos-releases-604-604-wifi-firmware-into-to-open-source-236804.php
>> http://tinyurl.com/yop4g2
>> 
> 
> Don't you love the language, though?  Nobody forced Archos to used GPLed
> code, that was their own decision.  Abiding by the licence of the code
> they've chosen to use is hardly "forcing" anyone to do anything more
> onerous than abiding by another other typically used licence.

Archos isn't compaining they were forced, as far as I can see.

> 
> Of course, if they don't like this, then they could replace all the
> relevant GPLed code with proprietary, but, of course, they'd have to
> maintain it then.

Who says *they* don't like it?

-- 
Kier


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