Chitech CT-PC89E - 8.9in ARM netbook with linux kernel, u-boot and new linux distro "MOS"

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<luke.leighton at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps worthwhile pointing out that any exports to places that care may be
>> in jeopardy.
>
>  eeeexcellent point.  i'd completely missed that one.  thank you.
>
>  this is perhaps the most important point of all: the knock-on effect
> of customers suing their immediate supplier.

 ah, i just remembered: they offered to give the source code IF we
placed an order for 20,000 netbooks, and put down a large enough
deposit.  cart before horse, especially because the people who want
the 20,000 netbooks don't want xxxxing MID-Linux, they want ubuntu
netbook: only way to do _that_ is to have xxxxing linux kernel source
code, u-boot source code and the recipe they created for flashing the
firmware.

 which, btw, undoubtedly uses busybox, thus violating _that_ GPL
software component's license, as well.

 if we can work out how to unpack a u-boot multifile (there's a u-boot
multifile creator but no "de-"creator) then i'll be able to separate
the linux kernel from the initrd, mount it as a cramfs and inspect it.

 oh wait - they're already in violation of busybox's GPL license,
because that's one of the 360 packages installed on the machine.

 l.