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Old 12-28-2016, 08:30 PM   #259
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Originally Posted by geek1011 View Post
It seems straightforward enough to me, but I have a question. Are there any propietary files in the recovery partition. I'm particularly suspicious of recoveryfs/lib/firmware/imx/epdc_E60_V220.fw . Also, do you think I can redistribute the whole recovery partition, except for the upgrade folder, which I would get from the update zip file.

Also, FYI, a dir listing of the recoveryfs partition is here: http://pastebin.com/Nzyxd6dR and a partition table dump is here: http://pastebin.com/YnJFXxce
Yes, the recoveryfs has proprietary code on it. It includes a copy of the firmware to unpack to the rootfs during a factory reset (under recoveryfs/upgrade). I would assume anything in any "Kobo" directory is proprietary. Not all the files will be, but a good portion are. Plus there are fonts, images, dictionary files and other things that Kobo might have licensed.

If your plan is to publish a tool to generate an image from files that are obtainable from Kobo or the device, you are probably OK. But, if your plan is to host an image file publicly, you will need to be careful. And as I said, I can't see the point. Apart from doing it as a learning experience.
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