Meta Quest and the GPL
I recently baught a new Meta Quest 3. Like all Android devices, the Quest includes Free Software[1], some components even under GNU Copyleft[2]. I did not find a written offer for those components, nor an optical disk including the source code of those copylefted Free Software components. GPLv2 includes the following paragraph: 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) As Meta is a commercial entity, only a) and b) are acceptable under the GNU GPL. I had a look at [4] and did not find any sources for the kernel: linux. I also found out that the Quest includes other free software, such as the GNU Debugger (gdb), dnsmasq and several tools for which I was unable to find the source code. Where can I find the source code for the copylefted Free Software components? https://www.meta.com/de/en/legal/quest/third-party-notices/01/ lists the following copylefted components. Notices for file(s): /system/lib/libfec_rs.a /system/lib64/libfec_rs.a GNU_LGPL /system/bin/dnsmasq GNU_GPL system/bin/fsck.f2fs /system/bin/make_f2fs /system/lib/libf2fs_fmt.a /system/lib64/libf2fs_fmt.a GNU_GPL /system/xbin/fio GNU_GPL /system/bin/gdbserver /system/bin/gdbserver64 GNU_GPL v2 -- old software versions /system/lib/libcap.so GNU_GPL /system/bin/sgdisk GNU_GPL /system/lib/libtinycompress.so /system/lib64/libtinycompress.so GNU_LGPL /system/xbin/mmc_utils GNU_GPL /system/lib/libnl.a /system/lib/libnl.so /system/lib64/libnl.a /system/lib64/libnl.so GNU_LGPL /system/bin/ip6tables /system/bin/iptables GNU_GPL /kernel GNU_GPL_V2 only /system/bin/ip /system/bin/tc /system/lib/libiprouteutil.so /system/lib/libnetlink.so /system/lib64/libiprouteutil.so /system/lib64/libnetlink.so GNU_GPL Notices for file(s): /system/lib64/libovrsensors.so /system/xbin/imutool [1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html [2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-copyleft.html [3] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html [4] https://github.com/facebookincubator/oculus-linux-kernel/tree/oculus-quest3-kernel-master