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June 02, 2006
Bell Doing the Right Thing
As a followup to my recent posting about Bell violating the GPL, I received a followup call from Mark at Bell. He said that the issue had been sent up to their legal department, and the decision has been made to publish the GPL'd code on the Bell website. mark told me that it would be the same code as published on the Dish site, and that it should appear within a week. As soon as I spot it on the site, I'll post a link.
I am a bit suspicious that they're going to post the same code as posted on the Dish site, because I believe that since the original Dish posting, there has been additional work performed on GPL'd areas, such as the SATA drivers. Once released, I'll do a diff to see if it's indeed the same code base. The best way to tell if Dish and Bell are being above board is to extract an image from the 9200 and compare strings with the released source code to see if there are any obvious differences.
Tags: Bell | GPL | source code | Dish |
Posted by Ian at June 2, 2006 11:29 AM
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