Resend: "Many" GPL violations
Jack S. Lai
laitcg at gmail.com
Fri Aug 22 20:24:34 CEST 2008
>From a concerned person associated with one of my programs:
> Hi Jack:
>
> I suppose you'll remember me.
>
> I'm (redacted) and worked at (redacted) in Valencia (Spain).
>
> It's more than one year I don't work at (redacted) anymore
> but I want you to know something I think it's happenning.
>
> (redacted) is selling a product called (redacted), you can
> take a look at:
(snip)
> It seems that they are selling this product all over Europe
> (Germany, Portugal, ...) but I don't see anything about GPL
> License so it makes me think that they are violating it.
>
> I can certainly tell you that the core is GPL because it's
> based on many GPL programs (yours and other's).
I sent the company in question an email as follows:
(snip)
> It is my understanding that this product contains GPL[1]
> programs and even modified copies of GPL'd programs.
> That's very good. Where might I get a copy of the source
> code of only the GPL licensed programs? Is this available
> anywhere?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> [1] "General Public License"
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
I have received no reply. I asked the Software Freedom Law Center
(SFLC) about this and they said:
"For your particular case, since the locus of infringing
activity is outside of the United States, we cannot offer to
represent you directly, since we are only American lawyers. If the
violator has been unacceptably responsive to your
demands, then you should consider retaining counsel in
your jurisdiction to represent you in asserting your rights
against the violator."
I am asking on this list what I might do now. Of course,
specific info is available upon request.
Thank you.
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