VIA GPL Violation ?
Bari Ari
bari at onelabs.com
Thu Oct 28 13:45:01 CEST 2004
Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Amaury Jacquot wrote:
>
>
>>hi guys
>>was looking through via arena, and found this file :
>>
>>http://www.viaarena.com/guides/WinCE/fastboot%20v2.03.zip
>>
>>problem is, running
>>
>>strings */BIOS_*.BIN | grep inux
>>
>>gives 2 mentions of LinuxBios for each binary bios file, which makes the
>>whole thing suspect...
>>
>>should via be hit with some GPL cluestick ?
>
>
> if you're sure and have the time, sounds good.
>
> I have also asked Cray for the LinuxBIOS source for the XD1 and received
> no response as of yet. This is getting to be a problem.
This is not new for Via:
Via "violates" GNU GPL with Padlock
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15329
but they did comply after being informed
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS4520757633.html
-Bari
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