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Author Topic: XD10 problem Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 09-10-2004 04:32 PM                        Well, if you were going to use DOS, you sure as heck wouldn't use MS-DOS, that'd be down right silly. Licensing PC-DOS or DR-DOS would be the way to go. Most likely PC-DOS. As for the "Linux enforcers", unless you're using Linux inside commercial devices (and selling them) Alan, you've got nothing to worry about. Router manufacturers, and presumably DTS, do though, since under the GPL they are required to release the source code of software used in their devices that also use Linux. Many manufacturers are complying, some after being sued. Linksys, for example, has their router (and etc) GLP source code available for download at: http://www.linksys.com/support/gpl.asp  |  IP: Logged Alan Haigh Film Handler Posts: 45 From: Watford, UK Registered: Jul 2003 posted 09-11-2004 01:46 AM                    That's interesting. I knew about the source code republication, but I thought it only applied if you actually modified the source code of an open source program. I'm not sure about the internal XD10 software, but its probably a seperate program, which uses unmodified open source "helper" programs. In this case they wouldn't have to publish it as there new program is closed source.  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-12-2004 03:48 PM                     Alan is correct here. DTS has nothing to worry about. Just because Linux is GPL'd does not mean that DTS has to release their source code because it happens to run under Linux. If DTS modified the Linux kernel, then they might be required to (maybe. Depending on how you define "mere aggregation."). But they use a loadable kernel module, so there is really no issue. Yes, DTS has to make the source to the GPL'd code they use available, but that has nothing to do with the source to anything proprietary of theirs. --jhawk  |  IP: Logged

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