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Originally Posted by kacir
They DID list the source of components that use GPL-ed code. How do you think the third-party FBReader180 came to life? Some clever hacker took that source of the default FBReader and improved it.
There is even Linux terminal for PocketBook devices that you can use to look around inside live system. It was developed during competition that was sponsored by PocketBook company.
Just have a look here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...46#post1834646
You download the offcial SDK and you can compile your own version of programs included on PocketBook.
They (the PocketBook company) are NOT perfect, and it took them awfully long time to publish sources, and they haven't published sources of proprietary stuff that was developed without GPL components, but it is still WAAAAAAY more then the vast majority of e-ink reader manufacturers.
Have a look around. I challenge you. Find another manufacturer that provides an SDK in meaningful form.
I challenge you. Download GPLed code that Sony has provided on their site to satisfy legal requirements and try to do something with it. Download code from Amazon, Kobo, or other manufacturers. |
My complaint was not so much about the misuse of GPLed code. I am not an expert on that, but I do get the feeling that none of the ebook manufacturers are following the spirit of that law. ...
What I am concerned about is how Pocketbook made a pretty feeble attempt to have fbreader support Arabic by customizing a couple of fonts, and (probably) doing a few other little things. But their version of fbreader is really buggy in handling Arabic and fonts in general (I have to reset fonts, sometimes several times, every time I turn my PB 602 on). I did manage to open up the sdk files from pbsdk-1.1.0 on my Mac OS (using the ar -x command), but I do not see
any fbreader files among the sources. Pocketbook altered fbreader files for their firmware, but I cannot find those
modifed files anywhere.
As for fbreader180, that may have improved on Pocketbook's fbreader version, but it is prohibitively buggy on myPB 602/fw 2.0.6 machine, and it has no Arabic support at all.
Perhaps I am sending this message to the wrong thread, but does anybody know where I can get those
modifed fbreader files? Can I get them directly from Pocketbook? If so, how do I do that?
I am not a professional developer, but I do have experience altering simple bits of code. For example, with coolreader3, I went into the source code and changed text alignment from "justified" to "left", which (to my taste) looks
much better.