On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > > -Linux bios team > > http://www.viaarena.com/guides/WinCE/fastboot%20v2.03.zip > > Looks like via is passing out linux bios, with out ever saying any thing > > about GPL or linuxbios.org... > > we've got a couple of GPL violators in the linuxbios space. I know Orion > Microsystems has got caught between a rock and a hard place and is > distributing linuxbios-based systems without releasing sources; I have no > idea if this via fastboot is linuxbios or not; via denies that it is.
I downloaded the above zip file, unzipped it and did a quick 'strings */BIOS* | grep -i linux' which resulted in: Try to load Linux(0x%x) at dev 0x%x LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Found file system used by Linux.(File System ID = 0x%x) LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) bash-2.05b$ strings */* | grep -i linux Try to load Linux(0x%x) at dev 0x%x LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Not a Linux kernel image. Linux(non-ELF), Linux version is very old. LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Linux(non-ELF), Try to load Linux(0x%x) at dev 0x%x LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Found file system used by Linux.(File System ID = 0x%x) LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Try to load Linux(0x%x) at dev 0x%x LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Found file system used by Linux.(File System ID = 0x%x) LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Try to load Linux(0x%x) at dev 0x%x LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Found file system used by Linux.(File System ID = 0x%x) LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Perhaps FSF or EFF can help? Best regards Peter K _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
