ELCE: The state of embedded Linux [LWN.net]

ELCE: The state of embedded Linux

Posted Nov 4, 2010 12:10 UTC (Thu) by etienne (subscriber, #25256)
In reply to: ELCE: The state of embedded Linux by tbird20d
Parent article: ELCE: The state of embedded Linux

> While the GPL v2 does say "scripts for ... installation"

Maybe it means that you can re-install an identical (bit to bit) library.
Does not forbid Tivo-ization, but at least you can check that you have the real source code - and can rebuild for instance to get debugging symbols.
That would forbid the user to encrypt the compiled library to hide bug fixes he has done, and distributing the sources without those bug fixes.

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