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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Are you certain about that? If someone could prove that the code is statically linked and point me at a legal source that explains why the code falls under GPL, I would be willing to host a copy (as an individual, not with MobileRead).
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It doesn't fall under GPL until the distributor says so.
Bookeen's reader statically (!) links at least to the following GPL/LGPL libraries:
glibc/iconv - LGPL
libgcj - LGPL with the exception that linking to it does not force other code to be released - so ok
MuPDF - GPL
I mailed the MuPDF redarding the legality of use of his work in Bookeen reader, but did not get the answer yet.
If you need some proof, you may just unpack the firmware, and run a strings(1) on it, it will dump lots of strings which may be identified as related to the corresponding open-source products.