Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Nov 2007 23:05 UTC, submitted by jello
GNU, GPL, Open Source Members of the Linux community have complained that the hot new sub-notebook from Asus, the eeePC, may have violated the spirit of the Linux General Public License. Some Linux advocates claim the eeePC has not included required source code with the installed Xandros Linux distribution and does not easily enable users to install another distro. However, there are indications that eeePC fans probably don't care.
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RE[2]: Let's not go to court
by sigzero on Mon 26th Nov 2007 01:58 UTC in reply to "RE: Let's not go to court"
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"So Asus is obligated under the GPL to provide source for GPLed Xandros packages it distributes unmodified."

Why can't they just point you to where Xandros has them?

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