Thread: GPL violation?
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Old 04-23-2008, 02:46 PM   #151
Murleen
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
How do you folks know that the Linux was modified? Linux embedded may be being used as it was distributed. The propritary software may be the reader they wrote. I see alot of assumtions being made in this thread, and not alot of facts. You are perfectly welcome to run software on Linux and not release the code to that software. It is not a component or modification of the Linux OS.
I looked at the kernel image included in the 538 update - it has been modified to include drivers for the e-ink controller. These are statically linked into the kernel, so definitely count as modifications for the purposes of the GPL.

Someone else previously posted saying that the boordr application also included GPL code (meaning Bookeen themselves would be violating), but I haven't checked that myself...

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