GPL violation: Motorola MOTODEV Studio for Linux

Jonathan Wilson jfwfreo at tpgi.com.au
Tue Feb 17 12:51:04 CET 2009


The preview release of MOTODEV Studio for Linux available from here:
http://developer.motorola.com/docstools/motodevstudio/linux/
contains GPL code (including gcc, binutils, glibc, cygwin and others) in 
both the "MOTOMAGX SDK" and the shipped VMWARE virtual machine (which 
contains an x86 build of linux and the MOTOMAGX software stack and is used 
for testing the apps you build with the SDK)

I am aware of various ongoing work to get the GPL source code to motorola 
phones (i.e. Z6w, a1600 and others that moto released that they havent 
published source code for) but this is for the linux SDK (which seems like 
now it will never go anywhere with Android being the focus)

Can someone follow up on this and tell me what is happening with regards to 
getting motorola to release the source code for this (and getting motorola 
to be better at complying with the GPL in the general case)




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