What if I did not have an e-mail address available to me? It seems in that case my right to access the source would have been withdrawn from me.
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:35 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Jai Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I'm having trouble identifying if this is free software or not. >> >> I took a look on Wikipedia and it stated that it is a "proprietary >> model", whatever that means. Then I took a look at the website and it >> requires you to provide them with personal details to be sent a link, >> by e-mail, to the source. >> >> The Wikipedia article seems to link to an e-mailed ID access to the >> source. So I downloaded the source that is provided but my poor >> programming experience means I was unable to identify if it is >> complete or not. >> >> One thing I would note is that the software is covered by the GPL >> license yet they require you to provide them with an e-mail address to >> be given access to it. >> >> Motherboards have been sold with this software on, right? If that's >> the case then surely this is a violation of the GPL. >> >> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Chris Rowson wrote: >>>> I know many of you probably read Slashdot, but just in case you missed >>>> it, what do you think of this news? Basically, Asus are going to have >>>> a Linux desktop pre-installed onto a chip on every motherboard they >>>> sell. >>>> >>>> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/14/173220 >>>> >>>> ""We first heard about Splashtop back in October, when the instant-on >>>> Linux desktop was announced. At the time it was a really exciting >>>> concept but Asus only rolled out the technology on high-end >>>> motherboards. Splashtop just announced that Asus will be expanding the >>>> desktop to the P5Q motherboard family and later on to all Asus >>>> motherboards. That's embedded Linux shipping over over a million >>>> motherboards a month! The release also mentioned that the technology >>>> will be appearing on notebooks this year as well." >>>> >>>> Good eh? >>>> >>>> Chris >>>> >>> >>> That's good news. I heard bits about this when I was looking for an >>> upgrade earlier on this year, unfortanately it didn't cover the mid >>> range boards I was looking at. >>> >>> Still, sounds promising. >>> >>> Rob >>> >>> >>> -- >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >>> >> >> -- >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >> > > IANAL, but I think that the GPL requires people who want the source to > be given access to it. You have gained access to it, and although this > is not as 'open' as putting it up for download straight off the site, > the source has been given to you. > > I would not be surprised if it does include some proprietary bits, the > EEE for example has a relatively large amount of proprietary stuff > built into the os. > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
