On 11-04-26 at 02:40pm, nanon...@mediagala.com wrote: >>Walter Bender wrote: >>Is there evidence of a violation of the GPL? >> Are the children of Uruguay are being denied access to Sugar source >> or the ability to modify it?
> I can Answer both questions: > > > YES AND YES. > > The children in Uruguay are being denied the ability to modify the XO > Sugar. > > In Uruguay , If a child ask the "Centro Ceibal" for a developer key > the answer is "NO". > > My answer is not based on somtething that I read on Internet, I heard > it with my ears. How is that a violation of GPL license? I believe they do have full access to all source code - just is not allowed to execute it (conveniently) on the hardware it resides on. Tivoization - as I understand it - is when the hardware locks the code in a way so that it can be executed but sources for the executed code is not available. That, I believe, is not the case for GPL-licensed code on the XOs even when the XOs are locked down. GPL code must be _readable_ - it need not be executable. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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