Yes, it's only for the Squeezebox/Transporter firmware, which has always
been closed.

Regarding SLIMP3's firmware - yes, the source is open, although not
"Open Source" as defined by FSF. The SLIMP3 firmware license used in
2001 is very similar to the new Logitech Public Source license, which
is being used for the new Jive code base. We like open, and although it
was not possible to open the Squeezebox firmware because of some
inextricable commercially licensed code, we are actually moving towards
MORE open source projects with the introduction of Jive. 

So I don't know which "suits" you're complaining about. I don't wear
one, and I'm the guy who came up with this license strategy some six
years ago.

Incidentally, the notion that SlimServer could ever be made
closed-source by anyone is pretty far fetched. It links in tons of GPL
code written by scores of authors - it's just not feasible even if we
wanted to, which we most certainly DO NOT.


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