On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Hector Oron <zu...@debian.org> wrote: >> Hello, > > hi hector, this is a timely message / issue to raise: it's very > relevant for the (newly discovered) CT-PC89E arm netbook which a > friend of mine found. > >> Nowadays, the number of devices (non x86) is growing and growing. >> Lots of these devices have not upstream linux kernel support, which >> makes it a bit harder to maintain in the context of debian-installer. > > in the case of the CT-PC89E, we haven't yet taken on the burdensome > and patient task of explaining the implications of the GPL to the > factory, yet, and of the need and obligation for them to provide the > GPL source code of both the linux kernel _and_ of the u-boot startup. > > i'm not mentioning this in order for people to go, "well, you're a > fool, and you can expect every problem you get, can't you, and don't > expect anyone on any debian mailing to ever provide you with any > assistance whatsoever". > > i'm mentioning it because with the increased uptake in guhoogul > anderoyd, the complete lack of understanding of the hardware > manufacturers - chinese - for the implications and obligations of the > GPL is going to be much more commonplace. > > thus, _realistically_, it makes sense to take into consideration that > some devices aren't going to _immediately_ get the linux source code, > and thus the fact that there may be binary-only linux kernels to work > from - initially - would also need to be taken into consideration.
Do you know where I can buy such device? I am ready to help trying to get Debian running on it. -- Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org> FFII Brussels - +32-484-566109 - +32-2-4148403 "In July 2005, after several failed attempts to legalise software patents in Europe, the patent establishment changed its strategy. Instead of explicitly seeking to sanction the patentability of software, they are now seeking to create a central European patent court, which would establish and enforce patentability rules in their favor, without any possibility of correction by competing courts or democratically elected legislators." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-embedded-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/560c7c9a1003020759i4645e8ddm7e0149a313ace...@mail.gmail.com
