VIA GPL Violation ?

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Thu Oct 28 12:55:01 CEST 2004


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.

ron



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