Dish Network Dishes Source Code for DVR

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday May 14, 2005 @02:57AM from the half-the-battle dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to Dish Network they are accommodating 'requests for the portions of the DISH 921 DVR source code that are subject to the GNU Public License, or GPL. In compliance with the terms of the GPL, we are making this source code available to the public to download. Please note that the DISH 921 DVR software also includes some proprietary elements that are not subject to the GPL. You cannot create a working DISH 921 DVR software build without the additional proprietary code. Do not replace or add any software to the DISH 921 DVR with items compiled from these source trees. Doing so will void all warranties and cause the unit to fail.'"

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Re:cool by n0-0p · 2005-05-14 04:24 · Score: 0, Troll

No it does not violate the GPL if they are not binary linking. Meaning they are most likely running proprietary applications on Linux to provide the PVR functionality. In that case they only need to provide the source for modifications to GPL software. Perhaps you should RTFA before commenting instead of making a disclaimer about it; it might lower the noise floor a bit.