On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:14:53AM -0500, Michael J. Lynch wrote: > The other day I accompanied my mother to a local big box electronics > store to help her purchase a sat tv system. She ended up getting a > receiver with a built in DVR. I was looking at the index for the > user's guide and noticed that one of the appendicies was the GNU GPL. > > I wonder...is the source available for the box...NOT! >-) Anyway > I just thought it was interesting.
The GPL says that they must release the sources for any changes made to pre-existing GPL software. They do not have to release the sources to proprietary software they developed to run on top of a GPL'd operating system. That is a popular misconception that figures prominently in Microsoft's FUD against Linux.
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