[LINK] US going digital TV in 2009

[Craig Sanders]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:22:17PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> Rick Welykochy wrote:
> >Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> >
> >><http://pcworld.about.com/news/Sep082005id122450.htm>
> >>
> >>Are your "toppy" and pc running linux?
> >
> >The toppy is running some variant of Unix, judging from the logs
> >it produces. Possibly Linux.
> 
> If it is running Linux then Topfield should/must have the source code 
> available somewhere.

sort of.

if it's linux-based, they would have to make the source available for
the linux kernel and any GPL tools on the system, including source for
any changes they made to the GPL-ed code.

they don't necessarily have to give source for any apps running on top
of the OS.

craig

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