LG violates gpl? take 2

[Luca Olivetti]

En/na Kees Bakker ha escrit:

>> And if it isn't so, it's not the product of the same, exact, source.
>> I.e. LG didn't provide me the same os that's running on the tv.
> 
> No, you can't simply draw that conclusion. I'm not saying it is
> impossible to create a binary identical copy from the same source,
> but it is hard. First of all the whole development system (your Linux
> PC on which you rebuild the kernel) must be as identical to the one
> that LG used;

The development environment (cross-compiler, cross-binutils, etc.) has 
been supplied by LG, and at least it's the same cross-compiler used to 
build the original kernel

> the filesystem paths of the source tree, etc. And

The source tree has been supplied by LG

> the build configuration and compile flags and link flags must be
> the same too.

As they are in the same source tree and I replicated the functions 
performed by the build scripts there, I suppose they are the same.
In fact, according to the sourcecode faq
http://gpl-violations.org/faq/sourcecode-faq.html
that's what they have to provide to be in compliance.

> Unless you have done your utmost best to copy that LG development
> environment, you cannot just use cmp to show that the source were
> different.

I've done my best with the things that have been provided to me, yes.
If I've not been provided with all the necessary pieces, then LG is not 
in compliance.


> You have to make smaller steps first. Do the diff on the strings
> output. Tell us if they are different. If they're not different,
> the next step is to do a disassemble (which needs a lot of fine
> tuning) and do a diff on that.

Frankly, I'm going to give up. Maybe that's what LG wants.

Bye
-- 
Luca