LG violates gpl? take 2
Luca Olivetti
luca at ventoso.org
Sat Mar 27 09:46:49 CET 2010
En/na Henrik Nordström ha escrit:
> tor 2010-03-25 klockan 15:03 +0100 skrev Luca Olivetti:
>
>> And, according to a note in the source, that string was added by "Colin"
>> (I suppose he's an LG employee since there's no such string in the
>> corresponding file of the mainline kernel) on the 17th of September
>> 2009, while the kernel was compiled on September 4:
>
> So once again they sent you a newer kernel source than the binary
> firmware kernel..
Yes, which per-se isn't a bad thing (if they fixed something without
breaking something else that is), but
a) it makes me wonder if they know what went into each firmware release
b) it isn't compliant with the gpl
Bye
--
Luca
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