ASUS SplashTop and Phoenix Hyperspace infringing kernel copyright and GPL

Joshua J. Kugler joshua at eeinternet.com
Tue May 20 21:45:12 CEST 2008


On Tuesday 20 May 2008, mr said something like:
> http://www.splashtop.com/developer.php
>
> you can download the source code after filling out this form.

Yes, that may be true, but remember a while back when the FSF went 
after "downstream" distributions for not distributing source code when 
they distributed (unmodified) Debian binaries?  It would seem that in 
this case, ASUS needs to distribute the source code as well, or they 
are in violation of the GPL as well.

Just my understanding...I make no claim that I'm right. :)

j

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