Freecom violates GPL

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi zdDog,

> Freecom turns a deaf ear towards users mailing them to release the
> source code, there has been one release of earlier firmware for the
> FSG, that's it.  A Few expert users want to try to develop these
> machines further, but have yet to receive an answer after months of
> e-mails.
>
> Any advice how to proceed further?

Report it to the FSFE's Freedom Task Force?

    http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/ftf/ftf.en.html

We could really do with some clarification as to whether reporting
things on this list comes to the attention of the gpl-violations.org
people who persue companies, and whether it also counts as informing
FSFE's FTF.  Or does one have to do both?

Also, some feedback from either party as to how things are going would
be good.  I realise they're busy witht the important work of enforcing
the license, but perhaps they can get less technical volunteer help to
provide a better public face?

Cheers,


Ralph.

P.S. Had to re-post this because of gpl-v.org's broken anti-spam
measures consider most of the ISPs of the western world are black-
listed.  I reguarly post to around 30 mailing lists on various
systems and this is the only one that replies:

<legal at lists.gpl-violations.org>:
213.95.46.72 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 unknown user
Giving up on 213.95.46.72.

I know I'm not the only person to have trouble posting to this
list.  Perhaps the admin can consider tweaking down their over-
zealous anti-spam measures.