Hello,
Just a quick question: u-boot boot loader/linux kernel/bash is GPL right ? So whoever is using it he should public entire source code with an annotation that it's based on u-boot boot loader/linux kernel/bash ?
Well, I'm a software programmer in the LG Electronics company, all these TVs has u-boot inside, with Linux kernel 2.6.10, bash etc. lots of GPL software and they not only didn't published the source code, they also changed all "authors" to themselves and claim that they actually "invented" all of this.
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Dear "Hekko",
In message 21445806094b2958a71cfb50.07474534.Active.mail@poczta.nazwa.pl you wrote:
Just a quick question: u-boot boot loader/linux kernel/bash is GPL right ? ...
Yes, but there are different versions of the GPL. U-Boot is currently "GPLv2+"; Linux is "GPLv2"; bash is currently "GPLv2+".
... So whoever is using it he should public entire source codewith an annotation that it's based on u-boot boot loader/linux kernel/bash ?
No, there is no need to publish the source code. Alternatively you can, for example, accompany your distribution with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code.
Please see the GPL for exact details.
Well, I'm a software programmer in the LG Electronics company, all these TVs has u-boot inside, with Linux kernel 2.6.10, bash etc. lots of GPL software and they not only didn't published the source code, they also changed all "authors" to themselves an d claim that they actually "invented" all of this.
Do you have any proof for this statement?
Did you contact LG and ask for a copy of the source code?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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