Filed under: Home Entertainment

Hope you’re not too sleepy, you hacker you, ’cause we’ve got a juicy one coming your way. No sooner did we find that the Netflix Player would be streaming content from other players in the industry later this year than Roku opens up the source code vault. You heard right — the GPL code has now been posted for the world to see, meaning that there’s just one link standing between you and umpteen delicious tarballs. Mmm, tarballs.

[Via Hack-A-Day]

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Filed under: Home Entertainment

Hope you’re not too sleepy, you hacker you, ’cause we’ve got a juicy one coming your way. No sooner did we find that the Netflix Player would be streaming content from other players in the industry later this year than Roku opens up the source code vault. You heard right — the GPL code has now been posted for the world to see, meaning that there’s just one link standing between you and umpteen delicious tarballs. Mmm, tarballs.

[Via Hack-A-Day]

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Filed under: Networking

Uh-oh, it looks like Verizon’s been too busy ramping up speeds on its FiOS network to mind a little thing called the GPL — the company has just been sued for using a GPL’d app called BusyBox in its FiOS routers but not providing the source code. BusyBox is a bundle of utilities used in embedded Linux applications, and the authors have been pretty vigilant in policing GPL-compliance in distributions that include it — they’ve sued two other companies that have shipped devices with BusyBox, and gotten settlements both times. We’re not sure what Verizon is doing with BusyBox on its routers or why it hasn’t released the source, but expect this one to reach a resolution rather quickly.

Disclaimer: Although this post was written by an attorney, it is not meant as legal advice or analysis and should not be taken as such.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Filed under: Laptops

We never really assumed foul play by Asus when it was discovered that the Eee’s Linux source package was missing the ACPI module, especially after Asus released it with little fanfare soon after it was first noticed — and now the company has released a statement formally calling the omission a mistake. Asus also said it’s working to publish all the Eee’s source in the appropriate forums, and that it intends to respect “the spirit of the GPL.” Which is great and all, but considering how much time Asus had to sort this out, you’d think they’d have their ducks in a row.

[Via TG Daily]

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Filed under: Laptops

A group of Linux users have spoken out against Asus and their apparent non-compliance with certain aspects of the General Public License attached to Xandros Linux distro that comes with the Eee PC. This flustered controversy centers around Asus modifying a module of the Linux kernel without distributing the source code, something that breaks the rules of the license. Your average Eee PC owner isn’t going to give a damn about such a trivial point, so end users can safely ignore this debate. As for whether Asus will step up and do what it should have done from day one, that’ll depend on how loud the developers involved make their case. Type harder guys!

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!