Roku serves up Netflix Player source code

Hope you're not too sleepy, you hacker you, 'cause we've got a juicy one coming your way. No sooner did we find that the Netflix Player would be streaming content from other players in the industry later this year than Roku opens up the source code vault. You heard right -- the GPL code has now been posted for the world to see, meaning that there's just one link standing between you and umpteen delicious tarballs. Mmm, tarballs.

[Via Hack-A-Day]

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2008 4:43AM]

Roku are just meeting their open source obligations. You couldn't build your own streamer from that stuff - it's the platform and supporting libraries that Roku's application sits on, not the application itself. Lots of embedded devices provide their source code. Its amazing how much stuff is built on Linux. Even Sony uses it a bunch.