Re: [Trisquel-users] NetGear PTV300 (Miracast Receiver) Firmware GPL v2

[mdunivan]

Yes.  It seems that many companies such as NetGear are willing to GPL code,  
but that is never a fully working unit.  There is always some component/piece  
missing.


There needs to be more com

Re: [Trisquel-users] NetGear PTV300 (Miracast Receiver) Firmware GPL v2

[legimet . calc]

Usually they release it only to comply with the GPL, I think.

Re: [Trisquel-users] NetGear PTV300 (Miracast Receiver) Firmware GPL v2

[chris]

I didn't look into the firmware for this device although am a bit skeptical  
it is actually 100% free. There are a lot of things that are GNU GPL licensed  
and not actually free due to bits of non-free software that the code is  
dependent on. That said it would be odd for them to release 100% of the code  
for the firmware of a device that appears to only work with MS Windows and is  
dependent on a propritary technology from Intel called WiDi. From what I  
gather Intel WiDi is not supported on GNU/Linux (as free software or  
otherwise).

Re: [Trisquel-users] NetGear PTV300 (Miracast Receiver) Firmware GPL v2

[gramex]

Where's the source? I don't see it on that page.

Re: [Trisquel-users] NetGear PTV300 (Miracast Receiver) Firmware GPL v2

[mdunivan]

http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2649/~/open-source-code-for-programmers-%28gpl%29

http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GPL/PTV3000_V1.0.13_opensource.tar.bz2