piplan1966

 

Why did DM sue VU?

 

They were of the opinion that they were the owner of the Enigma code, and no other manufacturer was allowed to use it. VU+ challenged them in court, and they lost (as the Enigma code was GPL licensed).

 

After which they decided to close the source (and from that create "DreamOS" ), which is also against the GPL license, which clearly states
 

If you do distribute YOUR APPLICATION, and you used something GPL as part of your application (even if only linking at run-time to a library) - and even if you do not charge money - and even if you do not change that GPL s/w in any way - then you MUST make the source of YOUR APPLICATION available.

 

This angered many developers who contributed to the GPL version of Enigma and now saw their contribution "stolen". Several of them being PLi developers.

 

And they weren't already very happy as DMM forced (by payment) many (mainly German) plugin developers to release their code with a license restriction that the plugin may only be used on DMM hardware.
 

Which is also why the Enigma open source world turned against DMM.

 

thanks

 

 

Unfortunately, no more the father of all enigma STBs

 

They lost that status when they sued VU+, and decided to go closed source in violation to the source license (there was a lot of PLi code in DMM's enigma at that point, explicitly released as GPL).
 

 

Why did DM sue VU?

Hi

I didn't understand that Enigma STB's father is no longer there?

It is sad to hear the sad news,
but it is certain
that every soul has to taste death, we share their grief equally. May Allah grant patience to Frenske's family and may Allah forgive Frenske (Ameen)

Hello everyone 

I just bought the Octagon SX88V2  4K  receiver and I want to flash it with the "openpli-9.1-release-sx88v2-20250226_usb"  image. However, Octagon SX88V2  has no any power or reset or any other button to enter the UPG menu (like other Octagon models as SF8008). Can i do this by rebooting the stb and a usb stick with the image inserted or I have something else to do?

can flash with usb