VIA GPL Violation ?

Amaury Jacquot sxpert at esitcom.org
Thu Oct 28 07:10:01 CEST 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 05:59 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Amaury Jacquot <sxpert at esitcom.org> writes:
> 
> > hi guys
> > was looking through via arena, and found this file :
> > 
> > http://www.viaarena.com/guides/WinCE/fastboot%20v2.03.zip
> > 
> > problem is, running
> > 
> > strings */BIOS_*.BIN | grep inux
> > 
> > gives 2 mentions of LinuxBios for each binary bios file, which makes the
> > whole thing suspect...
> > 
> > should via be hit with some GPL cluestick ?
> 
> Have you asked them for the code?

no, I haven't... shouldn't it be readily available from the download
page at http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?
PageID=22&DSCat=41&DCatType=3 where the files are pointed from ?

> Eric
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