Kindle source code freely available
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.
June 16th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
The source code has been freely available since the Kindle was first released back in ‘07.
June 16th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Oooops, I see the article already mentions that. Nevermind.
June 16th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
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.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:49 am
this is a requirement of the GPL (not that everyone follows it though)