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Subject: Re: GPL violations in ASUS EEE PC and Xandros OS
From: Sebastian =?iso-8859-1?q?K=FCgler?= <sebas () kde ! org>
Date: 2007-11-28 10:02:59
Message-ID: 200711281103.00465.sebas () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 27 November 2007 01:50:02 Stan Cunningham wrote:
> The wildly-popular and wildly-lucrative ASUS EEE PC,
> which is pre-installed with KDE and Xandros Linux, has
> come under scrutiny for not providing source code to
> GPL-licensed kernel modules
> (http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/osb/?p=273).
>
> Has anyone looked into whether any KDE applications
> installed on the ASUS EEE PC also lack source code
> (http://eeepc.asus.com/en/download.htm)? Any
> EEE-specific or Xandros-specific applications that
> link to (#include <...>) any GPL-licensed KDE
> module/header file must comply to the GPL and have
> source code available.
This is probably already irrelevant. Asus seems to have provided the source
code and is offering an SDK for the Eee PC.
http://eeepc.asus.com/en/news11272007.htm
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