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Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
"thinkingthing": That's not how the current distribution of NeoPwn2 works. It was released, temporarily, as a private beta. One that you paid to get into.

Linux is open source. Linux is also just a Kernel. It can easily have programs for it that are neither open source nor free. This, right now, is neither. It is supposedly going to eventually be released as both free and (as I understand it) open source software.

Last guy who publically announced he was making the beta available for download got his hosting revoked. Copyright does apply to this, and until it's open-sourced, it being on Linux doesn't change that. (But I'm sure you probably could find someone willing to secretly give it to you. I am not such a person, but I have no doubt some are.)
Maybe I am confused. but if all the tools, kernel, and drivers that are in Neopwn are full of GPL code would not most if not all of Neopwn be GPL because GPL is a copyleft license.

All Neopwn is is Optified GPL tools, like aircrack-ng, that is all packaged up with all the GPL Linux Kernel, and GPL libraries that the GPL programs need to run correctly on Maemo5.

The only code that is not modified GPL code is "maybe" the binary Wireless driver patch.

If it is all GPL code then he could still charge for it, but the source code would have to be "freely available." It seems to me that the neopwn guys have to be violating some GPL license somewhere.

Last edited by echoblack; 2010-09-28 at 10:35.