On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
-Linux bios team http://www.viaarena.com/guides/WinCE/fastboot%20v2.03.zip Looks like via is passing out linux bios, with out ever saying any thing about GPL or linuxbios.org...
we've got a couple of GPL violators in the linuxbios space. I know Orion Microsystems has got caught between a rock and a hard place and is distributing linuxbios-based systems without releasing sources; I have no idea if this via fastboot is linuxbios or not; via denies that it is.
I downloaded the above zip file, unzipped it and did a quick 'strings */BIOS* | grep -i linux' which resulted in:
Try to load Linux(0x%x) at dev 0x%x LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Found file system used by Linux.(File System ID = 0x%x) LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) bash-2.05b$ strings */* | grep -i linux Try to load Linux(0x%x) at dev 0x%x LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Not a Linux kernel image. Linux(non-ELF), Linux version is very old. LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Linux(non-ELF), Try to load Linux(0x%x) at dev 0x%x LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Found file system used by Linux.(File System ID = 0x%x) LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Try to load Linux(0x%x) at dev 0x%x LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Found file system used by Linux.(File System ID = 0x%x) LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Try to load Linux(0x%x) at dev 0x%x LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx) Found file system used by Linux.(File System ID = 0x%x) LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx)
Perhaps FSF or EFF can help?
Best regards
Peter K