2009/10/27 MJ Ray <[email protected]>: > richard newton <[email protected]> wrote: >> The following site appears to be selling a computer with a modified Debian >> system. I could find nothing on the site about the OS or where I might get >> the source code. >> In one of the screenshots I noticed it was using iceweasel so I assumed it >> was using Debian. >> >> http://thegocomputer.com/index.html > > Thanks for the email. I'm not sure the debian project can fix that. > > Is there any evidence that they are not giving the source code to > their customers? They are not required to publish it to all. See > http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic > > If there is evidence, I suggest you contact one of the copyright > holders (see the About box of a supplied program) and/or the FSF, > http://www.fsfeurope.org/ftf/ or GPL-Violations.org > http://gpl-violations.org/faq/violation-faq.html >
I went onto their live chat, and asked for a copy of the source code. They said 'the source code is not open'. I asked if that applied for customers of the Go Computer as well. They said 'yes'. -- Harry Rickards - [email protected] Debian Lenny server | Debian Sid desktop | UNR Karmic netbook A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - Doug Linder Binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
