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Yes, the licensing terms are on distribution, not on modification. They have to provide the source, even if it's not been modified.
by cnorthwood 9y ago
Yes, the licensing terms are on distribution, not on modification. They have to provide the source, even if it's not been modified.
- michaelt 9y agoThey have to provide the source for the kernel and whatnot - but if the interesting stuff is in userspace applications which aren't derivatives of copyleft code, they don't have to provide the source for _those_
- kogepathic 9y ago> but if the interesting stuff is in userspace applications which aren't derivatives of copyleft code Of course. Honeywell can run their own proprietary applications on top of a Linux/GNU system. I didn't mean to imply that you could request the source code to every program running on the device. However they need to provide the source code for any GPL licensed portions. IIRC they should also provide build scripts so you can create a firmware image yourself.
- qb45 9y agoGPL only requires providing build scripts for GPL software. In this case it means they can't strip kernel makefiles from the kernel source to make it harder to build independently.