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Building a free future in embedded devicesBuilding a free future in embedded devicesPosted Oct 19, 2006 14:16 UTC (Thu) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846)In reply to: Building a free future in embedded devices by cventers Parent article: Free gadgets need free software
Your point is moot: no manufacturer in the world. no commercial entity, actually ships Rockbox on its audio players. IMHO, they are not going to start using Rockbox in the near future either (software patents are the most obvious reason). In other words, it doesn't matter whether Rockbox is GPLv2 or GPLv3: the hardware manufacturers don't care either way, because they don't care about Rockbox in the first place.
So by telling Rockbox to adopt GPLv3, you are telling Rockbox users and devs to sacrifice some of their freedom in order to solve a problem that does not exist.
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Building a free future in embedded devices Posted Oct 19, 2006 18:30 UTC (Thu) by cventers (subscriber, #31465) [Link] You must not have read everything I said.It's possible my point is entirely moot, because Rockbox might never succeed. But there were people who said Linux would never go anywhere either. Do tell me - how am I telling Rockbox users and developers to sacrifice freedom by going with GPLv3? What freedom do the users or developers of Rockbox lose?
Building a free future in embedded devices Posted Oct 26, 2006 13:31 UTC (Thu) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link] I read on LWN that SanDisk were at least entertaining this notion: http://lwn.net/Articles/186091/
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