FreeNAS GPL violation

[Rufus Dufus]

I bumped the thread again about 3 weeks ago, I think the bump was about 2
months after the last I heard from them.
Should I not bother with non commercial violations?


On 10/8/07, mrintegrity <mrintegrity at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Looks to me like they are responding in a positive way at least, maybe
> you could ask them how it's going?
>
> Alan
>
>
> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 15:07 -0400, Rufus Dufus wrote:
> >
> >
> >  Hi,
> >
> >   Could the list review this and make sure I'm not off, on my
> > assessment of this GPL violation.
> >
> >
> >   It came to my attention that a open source project called FreeNAS, a
> > FreeBSD/m0n0wall based NAS distro was violating the GPL v2 and v3
> > (With the latest version of Samba). I posted a message on thier forum,
> > informing them they were not in compliance in two key areas of the GPL
> > license, first the requirement of including the text of the GPL
> > license and they needed to also make available the source code to the
> > GPL componets used. I was met with what I would call finger pointing,
> > the
> > source code is on the authors site, us providing source will cause
> > unregulated copies etc, and the FreeNAS author told me he didn't
> > include the GPL license itself because, quoting Olivier Cochard ;
> >
> > "I didn't include the GPL licence itself because I don't want to
> > create some confusion with the user: FreeNAS code (shell script, and
> > PHP code) is under BSD licence, but some of the software that it use
> > are under GPL licence (and other licences too)."
> >
> >
> > Obviously he knew about the GPL and the other licenses he mentioned,
> > and made the decision not to honor the terms, but did include text
> > regarding m0n0wall ;
> > "Portions from m0n0wall, both documentation and source code, copyright
> > 2002-2005 Manuel Kasper, and m0n0wall Documentation Project."
> >
> >
> > FreeNAS is also violating the terms of the Apache license for the
> > mDNSresponder and the PHP license for PHP v5 by not including thier
> > license text as well. And there is a possible license compatibility
> > issue here as well.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  The end users rights according to the GPL are being blantantly abused
> > here, one reading thier license gets the impression the entire project
> > is being distributed under the FreeBSD license.
> >
> >
> > The SVN for this project contains only patches for the various GPL
> > componets they used, the original source code not available, and
> > nearly all of the SVN entries for the GPL componets don't even tell
> > you what version they are using for the binaries they distribute.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  I think I was more than cordial about this situation with them, and
> > provided the information they needed to comply, unfortunately after
> > some 2 months, I don't think they care about being in compliance.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Original post with me asking them to comply, please notice the date
> > span and the lack of response to my "Bump" message :
> >
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1806830
> &amp;forum_id=507589
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > SVN for the project, contains directory references to the GPL'd code :
> >
> >
> > http://freenas.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freenas/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > FreeNAS license page from their website :
> >
> >
>
> > http://www.freenas.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp
> ;task=view&amp;id=3&amp;Itemid=23
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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