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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Possible GPL violation
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:24:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130220142411.93C9020052F@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5123E16B.1060907@gmail.com>

Dear Mateusz,

In message <5123E16B.1060907@gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> Is there anyone that can support me with enforcing GPL compliance on 
> company that ships product with binary u-boot? Or did that in the past?

We can try.

> They're "made" (branded is probably better word) by local companies, and 
> my guess is that most of them is violating GPL.

Guesses are not good enough in such legal affairs.

> I can't do much myself (except for nagging them for source code), as 
> it's not my copyrights that they're infringing.

So did you contact the vendor and ask for the source code?  And did
they answer, and what exactly?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-20 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-19 20:32 [U-Boot] Possible GPL violation Mateusz Kulikowski
2013-02-20 14:24 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2013-02-20 20:08   ` Mateusz Kulikowski
2013-03-07  9:17   ` Pavel Machek
2013-03-07 15:28     ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-03-07 21:46       ` Charles Manning
2013-03-07 22:23         ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-03-07 23:27           ` Charles Manning
2013-03-08  5:24             ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-03-08  8:40         ` Henrik Nordström
2013-09-12 19:46   ` Gerard Kam

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