From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24486 invoked by alias); 2 Mar 2010 21:22:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 24463 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Mar 2010 21:22:21 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com (HELO mail-bw0-f219.google.com) (209.85.218.219) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:21:22 +0000 Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so730451bwz.6 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:21:20 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.35.75 with SMTP id o11mr5202621bkd.15.1267564879742; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:21:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <3bff56531003021316i5c92abbfuf82a160f1249aa07@mail.gmail.com> References: <3bff56531003021316i5c92abbfuf82a160f1249aa07@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:22:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3bff56531003021321o3c60d2ceja4038ff739337bf5@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: eCos licensing, GPL and chinese gaming machines From: Anatoly Verkhovsky To: ecos-maintainers@ecos.sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-03/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 Hello,=A0 i was not sure where to ask this, so here is my question: Several chinese companies build and sell portable media players based on SPMP8000 chipset (produced by chinese company Sunkong).=A0 It appears that the application is built on top of eCos and Redboot, i'm pretty sure application and OS sources are closed source. Are they in violation of GPL? I assume these devices are made for internal market, but they do ship to Europe and US (worldwide). And there seems to be fair amount of those devices sold that way. I'm only a curious owner of one such device. Regards, AV