I'm sorry for my late responses.
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Originally Posted by Randy11
But the M92 is stopped, no available at ereader-store.de. So, 'stop selling' is not a valid solution, I presume. May be if we take care of the M92 sold in a period inferior at 2 years, the 2 years of warranty/guarantee, we can ask the code for this devices.
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Well, as franzli already said, they infringe the GPL not only with this single device. As I already said, I'm no lawyer, but I think they have to keep the code available as long as there are people who use the software. And there are, of course...
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Originally Posted by Randy11
It's seems more easy to obtain the Linux's sources than the Android.
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There shouldn't be any difference, as Android is also Linux-based. Anyway, Google might force closed source software on Android, but I don't know.
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Originally Posted by Randy11
But the team for the development of M92 could be not the same than the present team. I hope that the archives for the M92 were kept... or that they could use them ...
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They are legally required to keep the code available.
Now to Wong McGregor's post.
I already thought of continuing the work on Obuntu as a way to contribute here, but there is a single problem: I couldn't reach Seaniko7. I tried to contact him here on the forum and over his email address given at Github, but he didn't respond. I didn't find another way, so if you know how to reach him, please tell me. Also I couldn't try out Obuntu lately, as all the links I found on the forums are dead. Maybe you could re-upload the files somewhere, so Obuntu can at least be used by others? That would be great!
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Originally Posted by Wong McGregor
Like Seaniko, you are likely to be largely on your own and this would seem to be the path of least effort.
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Sadly, this seems to be right. There were quite a few developers around here in the better days, but they seems to be gone. I'm too not a kernel developer, but rather worked on user level software till now - but if the code is released, we have at least the opportunity to try things out and maybe even recover a device bricked by this
. At last, one is never too old to learn - why not begin with kernel development? So I think there is no reason to give up before we even begun. Furthermore, as there is interest, there will be people to discuss things with. Nothing more is needed for a thriving community
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A short update regarding my requests: I just wrote emails to Onyx and ereader-store.de, asking them again to give me the code, because they didn't answer till now. The people of ereader-store.de may be on summer holidays, but there is not out-of-office message. Let's see what happens...