Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752303AbaLCVuM (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 16:50:12 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:36905 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751106AbaLCVuK (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 16:50:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 22:50:09 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Heyang Zhou Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL violation: China Telecom uses a modified linux kernel in its product without sources Message-ID: <20141203215009.GA31938@amd> References: <1417610321.11684.4.camel@mrl.im> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1417610321.11684.4.camel@mrl.im> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > I think China Telecom is violating GPL in one of its products, iTV. > The product uses linux as its OS. To run on MIPS architecture, it does a > lot of modification to linux kernel. But there is NO source published. I > phoned them and they just refused to open the source. > The product 'iTV' is distributed and being used by many people. And I'm > sure that it uses Linux kernel, for I've checked its UART output. > This would be right place to coordinate action: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl-violations.org ...but for some reason, Gpl-violations.org does not work for me. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/