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The stock book8088 BIOS is a ripoff (GPL violation) of this. IDK about that bug though.

• bdowling 3y ago
  Didn't they notify buyers of the open source bios and share the code if a buyer wanted it? That may be enough to satisfy the GPL.
  • LukeShu 3y ago
    IDK what notices they provide, but: The copyright statement that prints on boot and indicates that it is licensed under the GPL has been stripped, violating section 4 and 5.d (now claims to be "Copyright (C) 2022 CYCLE Logic" with no mention of "Copyright (C) 2010 - 2020 Sergey Kiselev", and with no mention of the GPL). If you do request the source code from them, to their credit they do give it to you, but they code the give you has all (edit: most) of the copyright header-comments removed (violation of section 5.b). And generally, in neither the binary nor the source code indicate that it's based on book8088 (violation of section 5.a).
    • snvzz 3y ago
      That's so silly. They'd definitely sell more, not less, of these book8088s if they credited the bios and used upstream's source. Particularly now that upstream directly supports the device.
  • rasz 3y ago
    No :) Its Chinese open source, Bunnie calls it Gongkai https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297 https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297 You copy, rip out attribution, add some optional modifications and sell it as your own.
  • ok123456 3y ago
    When you buy it they send you an archive that has the schematics for the machine, and a zip file that contains the source code to the rom with whatever modifications they made.