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Originally Posted by HarryT
I would guess that, for example, the drivers for the eInk display are proprietary.
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That's an insanity of the party who is making the controller. Hardware vendors have a perfect model for open source, they are the ones who 100% know how to make money out of it. You need to buy their stuff to run that code.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
There's absolutely nothing in the GPL which requires that the released source code be "buildable".
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Yes, there is. GPL mandates giving a customer the complete access to any GPL-tagged code used on product, and any derived works. Since any GPL-protected entity can be compiled, the result can be compiled, as well. It is the missing pieces that prevent you from running your own software on hardware that you own.