Re: MSM6281 support was: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Jun 11 2009 - 03:51:03 EST


On Thu 2009-06-11 00:02:07, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:19:40 +0200, Pavel Machek said:
> > > They have the licence inside and offer source on request on the letter. I wrote
> > > them a mail some hours ago and they state that all source will be on
> > > http://opensource.palm.com/ within two weeks.
> >
> > Ugh, nice approach to GPL :-(.
>
> On the other hand, it's far from the worst GPL abuse we've seen. It sounds
> like they're at least *trying* to DTRT, and they're at least complying with the
> letter of the license, and *mostly* the spirit...

"Far from the worst" is exact. Yes, it could be worse. Question is how
they'll respond to those letters. I suspect they will just wait 14
days and then send CD...
Pavel
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