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Old 07-05-2010, 06:34 PM   #54
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
lBook consists of hardware and firmware. They have access to the official Jinke firmware and modify it accordingly. I do not know if they provide a copy of the source back to Jinke or what legal agreements they have. Bebook has also been known to modify Jinke supplied firmware, although to a much less extent.

As an OEM supplier Jinke does have individual contracts when each of their customers for what they supply. For example the TTS that is on EZ Reader Pocket Pro is a specific feature that Jinke provides to some customers but if you download the firmware from the Jinke site you will find that this is missing.

Dale
I was unaware Bebook did any modifications to the firmware, I was under the impression Jinke did the mods for Bebook (splash/startup screens etc).

I don't think there would be a contractual obligation between LBook and Jinke to hand back any changes they have made, the software is GPL'd so they'd have to hand a copy upon request. The only exclusion here would be closed-source aspects, such as ADE.
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