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Kindle source code freely available
June 16, 2009 | 4:22 pm
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By Paul Biba
TechCrunch is reporting that the source code for the Kindle, Kindle 2 and the Kindle DX is freely available from Amazon. No monkey business here, it’s perfectly all right to download it. Here is the link to the Amazon page that hosts the code. The page states: Amazon is pleased to make available to you for download an archive file of the machine readable source code (“Source Code”) corresponding to modified software packages used in the Kindle device.
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Comments:
The source code has been freely available since the Kindle was first released back in ’07.
Oooops, I see the article already mentions that. Nevermind.
The other thing the article (now) mentions is that this is not “the Kindle source code”.
It is only the code of the GPL’d lbraries that are used on the Kindles, not the code developed by Amazon for the Kindle.
this is a requirement of the GPL (not that everyone follows it though)