Re:Ask HN: Where is the open source smart TV firmware?
by Someone on Monday September 20, 2021 @04:09PM
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They make it about as hard as legally allowed to get the source code, and I don’t know what exactly you get when you ask them for the software, but Philips has open source firmware for at least some of its televisions.
This television contains open source software. TP Vision Europe B.V. hereby offers to deliver, upon request, a copy of the complete corresponding source code for the copyrighted open source software packages used in this product for which such offer is requested by the respective licences.
This offer is valid up to three years after product purchase to anyone in receipt of this information.
To obtain the source code, please write in English to . . .
Intellectual Property Dept. TP Vision Europe B.V. Prins
Bernhardplein 200 1097 JB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
That television uses FFMpeg, SQLite, zlib, and other libraries.
For an example, https://www.p4c.philips.com/files/4/40pfk6300_12/40pfk6300_1... says
This television contains open source software. TP Vision Europe B.V. hereby offers to deliver, upon request, a copy of the complete corresponding source code for the copyrighted open source software packages used in this product for which such offer is requested by the respective licences.
This offer is valid up to three years after product purchase to anyone in receipt of this information.
To obtain the source code, please write in English to . . .
That television uses FFMpeg, SQLite, zlib, and other libraries.