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Re:The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise by dublinben on Saturday March 02, 2013 @02:53AM (#5308898)
The GPL requires that any changes (made to code used in released products) be released under the GPL. I'm unaware of any home appliance manufacturer that freely releases the OS of their products under the GPL, as they would have to if they were using Linux.
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Re:The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise by loumf on Monday March 04, 2013 @02:21PM (#5320153)
If they did, they would probably do it the way Amazon does with Kindle or Samsung does with Android. A giant tarball you can download from somewhere on their site, but not necessarily easy to just know about (like a link on the homepage).

If you go here: http://opensource.samsung.com you can see that they have the OS for some TV's. This is the typical way they comply (with unuseful, unannotated giant dumps).

LG actually has some appliances:

http://www.lg.com/global/support/opensource/index

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