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2014-10-07, 09:27
(This post was last modified: 2014-10-07, 09:31 by derksuh.)
Infringing software?. It is only a customized skin on which they want to make lots of money.
Which i cannot say is right because the software and all addons are open source.
Only wanted to check this out seems to look nice and running smooth.
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So you are saying that the distributors are making their xbmc source available? Where pray?
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On their website they are saying that their box is powerede by raspberry pi
And openelec xbmc if you are looking at the specifics.
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2014-10-07, 22:34
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NO IT IS NOT CRIMINAL to make money from open source. It is illegal [0] to take GPL2 licensed source code, change it, compile it, and distribute it without also making the source available [1].
If someone is pays me to install open source software on their computer, or to buy a computer off me with open source software installed for mor than the hardware cost, then that is up to them. It is not a breach of the GPL2.
[0] a breach of copyright law, although not necessarily "criminal".
[1] In fact you have to provide the source if you distribute the binary, even if you have not changed the source!
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2014-10-13, 12:47
(This post was last modified: 2014-10-13, 13:24 by psysfaction.)
So I couldn't help myself and I got a hold of image. The One 8gb.
As far as I can tell it runs on Openelec 1.4.1 with no changes done to the system. They din't even bother to change the system Name so you still see the box as OpenElec on your network.
They have a custom splash picture wich is located on the fat partition of the SD card.
It has a custom skin and it gets the add ons form their own repository.
You can even change back to confluence skin to access the file manager.
If someone is interested I can upload the storage folder so that you can check the skin and add ons used but I do not think they made changes to the Kodi code.
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Last week I even saw a payed promotion in my FB timeline from them.
Only have 1 word for them, losers!
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again: everyone that legally obtained their image are entitled to the source, so ask for it.
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Hello,
Is it possible to run this software on the computer? I've put xbmc to my macbook but i don't know what's the repo. My raspberry is to slow to run it smoothly.. i thought if i put it on my mac I can also watch movies without tv..
thanks in advance!
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Thanks, but that was not what i mean;
I have already run XBMC on my macbook but i want the software (repo) "ditistv" on my macbook. Is this possible?