SynapseAttack Wrote: > You mean the Source that you can find simply by searching Sonos' FAQs > for GPL? The first and only thing that shows up is: > http://tinyurl.com/p2wte > or you can go to: > http://www.sonos.com/support/downloads/GPL/ > > I like SqeezeBoxes as much as the next guy, but lets get the facts > right before opening our mouth and saying "Sonos is Evil" There's a difference (a BIG difference) between being "friendly to the open source community" and "meeting your legal obligations if you use some open source products in your code".
Slim Devices is, without a doubt, open source friendly. The vast majority of their code (everything except firmware) is 100% available. You can view the source, change the source, or do anything else you need to do. From an open source perspective, it doesn't get any better than this. Sonos, on the other hand, uses a few open source products in their code (and may make a few changes). According to the license terms of such products, such code must be available to those who request it. This is NOT "friendly to the open source community", this is simply meeting your legal obligations due to the license terms of said products. This is not to say that "Sonos is Evil". But they certainly aren't open source either - I can't download the vast majority of their source code, and I can't change their source code. -- Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=49 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23805 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
