On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:39:43PM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > On Aug 25, 2010, at 11:18 PM, Geoff Shang wrote: > >> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Lior Kaplan wrote: >> >>> http://www.doom.co.il/blog/?p=333 >> >> Any chance of a quick executive summary for us Hebrew impaired? > > > > I had to use google translate, so it may not be completely accurate. > > He bought a digital TV decoder box. It has a USB port so you can put a > disk drive or memory stick on it and record programs. > > He thinks it runs on Linux. To comply with the GPL, the source code > needs to be availble. It is as far as he knows not available.
Regardless of what he thinks and what he bought, a certain company makes a firmware upgrade available for download. That firmware upgrade is technically a bootable Linux system (kernel, root filesystem, some extra tools needed to boot it). If you make a binary generated from a GPL source code available for download, you should provide the sources (or offer to provide them). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
