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Originally Posted by knc1
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But they also said: "Thank you" for bring those matters to their attention. Nice folk.
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Yeah, amazon support staff told me "it should be fine for you to distribute kindle firmware images for repair purposes", but when I asked for that in writing, they said "our legal staff will contact you in a few days". But they never did.
They also failed to get back to me "in a few days" on other technical issues as well. Apparently "in a few days" is a euphamism for "when hell freezes over".
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Originally Posted by knc1
@GM : I only wrote that the Freescale license is "GPL like" in the sense that it is viral.
I did not (intend to) make any suggestion that it be combined with GPL code.
PS: Hawhill's K3flasher is not GPL code, he can embed the RAM kernel if he wants to.
Plus: the only communication with the RAM kernel is over a communications link, it isn't even as advanced as RPC.
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I understood that the first time I read it. Hawhill has used GPL in the past, which was my only concern. It is good that he has forsaken GPL in this particular instance, to simplify things. I do not think it is required to embed the RAM kernel in his executable, but I approve in that it is one less thing for an end-user to keep track of. I like monolithic executables with minimal external dependencies that can break later.