{"id":1656,"date":"2009-06-17T10:02:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T08:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2009-06-17T10:02:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T08:02:51","slug":"amazon-kindly-source-code-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/17\/amazon-kindly-source-code-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Kindle source code to the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1657\" title=\"Picture 2\" src=\"https:\/\/cloud.norai.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Picture-2.png\" alt=\"Picture 2\" width=\"234\" height=\"274\" \/>Amazon is releasing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/help\/customer\/display.html?ie=UTF8&amp;nodeId=200203720\" target=\"_blank\">source code<\/a> of the kindle devices to the world. It&#8217;s fairly basic Linux underneath (kernel 2.6.22 on the latest 2.1 software). What&#8217;s unclear without compiling one of these and booting it up (to our untrained eyes, anyway) is whether Amazon stripped out its various DRM and licensed codec support &#8212; MP3 and Audible seem very likely candidates for explosion, even if turns out Amazon did leave in its own Kindle Book DRM. We&#8217;re also lacking an actual specific license for the code, though the folder we unpacked the OS to is called &#8220;gplrelease,&#8221; so hopefully we&#8217;re looking at the GNU General Public License &#8212; which would mean manufacturers can take and repurpose this code to build their own Kindle clone \/ destroyer \/ gentle homage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is releasing the source code of the kindle devices to the world. It&#8217;s fairly basic Linux underneath (kernel 2.6.22 on the latest 2.1 software). What&#8217;s unclear without compiling one of these and booting it up (to our untrained eyes, anyway) is whether Amazon stripped out its various DRM and licensed codec support &#8212; MP3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[83,84,5],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-kindle","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}