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Old 01-11-2015, 09:02 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by JoeD View Post
I've just been reading through some past posts on here and in particular the KOReader wiki, I hadn't realised so much was now available for the kindle source wise from both amazon for the linux side and other projects for the UI/frontend.

I've seen a few threads with regards to rebuilding the kernel based on the amazon source release, but has anyone rebuilt the entire rootfs from source? I have 4NT but question applies to any eInk version.
No. That is all proprietary code.

There are three major groups of code :
Open Source whose license requires its release ;
Open Source whose license permits but does not require its release ;
Closed Source code.

Amazon only releases a major part of the first category.
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