VTrak 15100: Promise _almost_ follows the GPL
08 Apr 2005Welp, Promise has come through on the first part of the GPL: they've put up the source code on their FTP server (look around, not that hard to find...) for Busybox and a Linux kernel. Looks like the kernel tarball is a copy of 2.4.18, and Busybox is 1.00-pre3. I'll be grabbing original copies of each and see if I can find any differences.
In the meantime, I've put up both on my website (though see below re: further GPL obligations, and note that I do not vouch for or guarantee the integrity of these tarballs -- for all I know, I've got a bunch of cunningly renamed source files for SoBig). --Woohoo, there's even .config files in both! Next step is to convince them that Sections 3a and 3b (hand out the source with the binaries, or offer to hand out the source for the binaries) is just as important as giving me a copy. But kudos to Albert Dy, Technical Support Manager at Promise, for working with me on this.
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From: the life of a sysadmin » Promise releases the source!
13-May-2005-06:05:27
[...] rvice manager at Promise, and it’s good news. As required by the GPL, they’ve finally released the source for the Linux kernel and the Busybox utility. They’re used in [...]
From: the life of a sysadmin »
17-April-2005-07:59:16
[...] it. Well, except for today. Starting to find a couple things that are annoying (besides the GPL violations, I mean). First off, it looks like changing the cache policy on a logical dri [...]
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