Bought ebook reader; violates GPL.
Dec. 10th, 2010 01:04 amToday I bought an ebook reader from the HEMA which is actually the Ambiance Digibook ADB-106 (suddenly called MDB-106 when you look it up now; last week I just googled for "Ambiance Digibook" which is visible in the illustration on the printed flyer) which is actually the OAXIS EB-601.
It was on sale for only EUR 99. Page turning is a bit slow, and when you resize the font, it just scales the page and you have to select some other menu item to actually reflow the text.
Anyway, it professes to run Linux. The software information page even gives a list of various GPL programs that it uses with links to their home pages.
However, this seems insufficient to comply with the GPL.
I see at least the following deficiencies:
It was on sale for only EUR 99. Page turning is a bit slow, and when you resize the font, it just scales the page and you have to select some other menu item to actually reflow the text.
Anyway, it professes to run Linux. The software information page even gives a list of various GPL programs that it uses with links to their home pages.
However, this seems insufficient to comply with the GPL.
I see at least the following deficiencies:
- The full text of the GPL is not included (GPL clause 1), just mentioned (not even by URL).
- Although general links (to project homepages) are provided, the exact source version that was used for the delivered product must be delivered (clause 3a or 3b; 3c does not apply as an option for commercial distribution).
- Missing is also "any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable" (clause 3)
- There is also no tool chain included (this interpretation reads "scripts" to include cross-compilers and the like too).