[mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Interesting linux tidbit
chris at cpr.homelinux.net
chris at cpr.homelinux.net
Tue Sep 6 13:31:02 UTC 2005
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:14:53AM -0500, Michael J. Lynch wrote:
> The other day I accompanied my mother to a local big box electronics
> store to help her purchase a sat tv system. She ended up getting a
> receiver with a built in DVR. I was looking at the index for the
> user's guide and noticed that one of the appendicies was the GNU GPL.
>
> I wonder...is the source available for the box...NOT! >-) Anyway
> I just thought it was interesting.
The GPL says that they must release the sources for any changes made to
pre-existing GPL software. They do not have to release the sources to
proprietary software they developed to run on top of a GPL'd operating
system. That is a popular misconception that figures prominently in
Microsoft's FUD against Linux.
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