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On behalf of the Rockbox developers, I'm very pleased to announce that Rockbox 3.6 has just been released!

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Created by mick 12 years 1 week ago – Made popular 12 years 1 week ago
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benasselstine

12 years 1 week 2 days 21 hours ago

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license?

The license for this self-proclaimed "open source" project is not listed in their FAQ, and it's not shown on their home page. Their source archive is a 24MB 7zip file. There are 30+ manuals. There's no COPYING file in the root of their svn repository. The boilerplate in a random sampling of source files appears to be GPLv2+. Also, the introduction in one of the manuals I checked stated it is released under the GPL.
Rockbox is free software.

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DeadSuperHero

12 years 1 week 2 days 14 hours ago

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Actually...

According to Wikipedia, Rockbox is licensed under the GPL. Yes, they make the mistake of calling themselves "open source" rather than "Free Software", it happens a lot nowadays.

Still, it's GPL'ed, and it's a fantstic project.

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spanky

11 years 49 weeks 3 hours 34 min ago

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I just really, really hate

projects that don't state their license very clearly. Makes one think there's something shady going on.

Preferably the license should be prominently mentioned on the front page of a project and definitely in COPYING in the tarball.

I can't start to count how many emails I have sent over this issue to various authors over the years.

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