Koen, the Linux used / recommended for DaVinci products is a commercial offering from MontaVista (MV pro 4.x or 5.x). You can find some details about it on the MV website
http://www.mvista.com/product_detail_pro.php or from the product folder of the DVSPB ( http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/tmdsdvspba9.html ) There are lots of resources on the web, including FAQs from MV, which explain the commercial offering value proposition, for example see http://www.mvista.com/why.php Also, as for my knowledge of GPL and open source licensing issues there is no problem in redistributing a Linux distribution but charging for other things like medium of distribution, support, testing etc. When you get the MV Pro you get it of course in source format. This is something lots of companies do, not only in the embedded world Stuff like patch integration, system testing, kernel maintenance, professional development tools (DevRocket), development utilities, etc are things that are typically very costly to do in-house and require a technical expertise that not every company doing embedded products has, or is willing to invest in, especially if it is not not their core business. So at the end there is a recognized commercial value in this business model which is the value proposition of the MV Linux offering, and having said that, in short I don't believe there is a violation of anything. Also, I do not want to start a flame on this since this mailing list is focused to discuss on technical issues related to DaVinci Linux. Still, I hope it helps reassuring you a bit, and I thank you in advance for taking the survey ;-) On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Koen Kooi <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20-04-09 16:28, Leo DaVinci wrote: > >> In order to address the users expectations, please take part in a short >> survey: >> >> http://www.ti.com/asia-codec-survey0902-en >> >> any feedback is precious and will be highly appreciated.... > > Your survey implies that there is a non opensource linux, where did you get > that from and why hasn't anyone sued its vendor yet for violating the GPL? > > > _______________________________________________ > Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source > _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list [email protected] http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
