Thread: New gen3 firmware - anyone tried it?
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Old 09-16-2008, 06:27 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
By your definition, NO eBook reader is "legal" to use then, because on none of them is it possible to install Linux without the associated reading application. You can't install Linux on a Sony Reader without Sony's reading application, so does this mean that, in your view, it is "illegal" to use a Sony Reader?

You are seriously saying that all these companies are selling illegal products? With respect, I'm sure that they all employ lawyers who know rather more about what is or is not legal to sell than you or I do.
I am sure they do not. I am sure we know better how GPL works than Bookeen.

I do not understand why you refuse to accept that when Bookeen sell a Cybook it is copyright infringement. But if nobody takes them to court it is pretty safe to continue selling the Cybook.

According to GPL2 you do not have to be able to install the firmware. In GPL3 the seller has to provide the method to install the firmware. So for the Cybook they do not have to provide the installation method.
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