From: Marc Dietrich <marvin24@gmx.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Heyang Zhou <zhy@mrl.im>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL violation: China Telecom uses a modified linux kernel in itsproduct without sources
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:46:55 +0100
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Am Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2014, 22:50:09 schrieb Pavel Machek:
> 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.

there is not much kernel devs can do about this. Better read this first and 
then ask the FSF for help.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html

Marc

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