{"id":19,"date":"2008-09-28T22:49:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T02:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2011-02-20T23:10:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T03:10:19","slug":"even-sony-uses-free-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/28\/even-sony-uses-free-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Sony uses Free Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just purchased a new 46&#8243; HDTV, the <a href=\"http:\/\/b2b.sony.com\/Solutions\/product\/KDL-46V4100\">Sony Bravia KDL-46V4100<\/a>, and boy is it sweet.  But I&#8217;m not here today to advertise TVs to you.  I was reading through the various documentation that came in the box, and I came across a copy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/gpl.html\">GNU General Public License<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/lesser.html\">Lesser General Public License<\/a>.  Even Sony uses Free Software in their televisions.<\/p>\n<p>The 46V4100 includes the following GPL&#8217;ed software: Linux Kernel (no version number mentioned), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.busybox.net\/\">busybox<\/a>, and pump (no idea what this is).  Under the LGPL, it contains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/libc\/\">glibc<\/a>.  Other software listed includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijg.org\/\">Independent JPEG Group<\/a> Software, Software Developed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openssl.org\/\">OpenSSL Project<\/a> for Use in the SSL-Toolkit (SSLeay License), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freetype.org\/freetype2\/index.html\">Freetype2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/expat.sourceforge.net\/\">Expat<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/\">cURL<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/directory.fsf.org\/project\/popt\/\">Popt<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just purchased a new 46&#8243; HDTV, the Sony Bravia KDL-46V4100, and boy is it sweet. But I&#8217;m not here today to advertise TVs to you. I was reading through the various documentation that came in the box, and I came across a copy of the GNU General Public License and the Lesser General Public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}