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Originally Posted by kacir
When you purchase the STAReBOOK reader you can demand the source for GPL-ed software on their device. And they have to provide the source to you. They might ask for a reasonable handling fee (cost of media, burning itself, postage, ...) but they can't ask the money for the code itself. And once you have the source, You can do anything with it - according the GPL.
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They wouldn't be the first company to ignore our demands to publish the Linux sources.
Even Sony, who released the sources, didn't take GPL serious, or they would have made it possible for us to recompile and reflash the firmware.