Re: Acer Aspire One: GPL situation?

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 11:16 +0100, William Gallafent wrote:
> I recently purchased one of these machines (manufactured by Acer, http://www.acer.co.uk/ 
>   ) which runs Linpus Linux Lite ( http://www.linpus.com/ ). It is a  
> very nice piece of hardware, the price is right (£220), and it runs  
> Linux. What's not to like?
> 
> I now wish to see the source code for the GPL software which ships on  
> it.
> 
> There is a piece of paper in the box which says "The Linpux Linux GPL  
> source can be downloaded from the website www.linpus.com."
> 
> I have searched that web site, and cannot find a download location for  
> the source code. So far, fairly unsatisfactory, since I would expect  
> it to be a lot easier to locate the source code given the "written  
> offer" quoted above. I have emailed Linpus and Acer, and await a  
> response from either of them. I will update the list if I receive a  
> response.

Hm, the FTP site appears to have stuff:

ftp://ftp.linpus.com/

I don't know if that is what you are looking for.

armijn

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