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Originally Posted by doctorow
Free beer is good! 
One thing you guys didn't mention yet:
In order to become a "private" developer for the iLiad platform (and receive the SDK), you need to register with them and own an iLiad device, where the "development environment" is being downloaded from.
So if you don't have an iLiad, you won't get to see the SDK. Bad luck, guess we have to stick to our free beer. The big question: is this way of releasing the sources and development tools in compliance with GPL? |
This assumes that the sources and development tools are, in fact, licensed under the GPL -- a common assumption here that I don't share. I don't see anything on the linked Irex developer page that indicates that the SDK itself is free or open source. They even put "free" in quotes to blunt the implication that with SDK will be anything more than proprietary freeware, "free beer."
Irex
does have to release the source code for any modified Linux kernel used by the iLiad, but not any propriety middleware or toolkits (TiVo, for instance, discreetly makes its modified Linux kernel available, but not the middleware developed separately, in-house). We'll have to wait and see how these are licensed.