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Originally Posted by ProfJonathan
WebOS is Linux-based, which means (a) it's open source and therefore (b) customers have the right to request and receive full source code. That's the point of open source. {ProfJonathan}
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Yes and no. It is Linux-based, but they don't have to hand over all the source code for WebOS if someone asks. They only have to provide any GPL'd code or modifications to the GPL'd code. Any other modification to the OS which they wrote from scratch, or that they modified from non-GPL code, they don't have to provide.
So no, you could not say "Palm, give me the WebOS source code". You could say "Provide me with the source code to anything covered under the GPL". Although this would be a large amount of code, most of it is already available. It would also not be nearly enough to re-create WebOS from. There is a lot of proprietary software in there which they do not have to give you.