thomson/technicolor/speedtouch further gpl violation

[Ian Stirling]

Anthony B wrote:
> 
> i recently downloaded and browsed the source for the inventel livebox 
> (manufactured by thomson/speedtouch) redboot boot loader. if i
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> looks to me that this source was been used to build the bootloaders to 
> several variants of the thomson 7G.
> 
> thomson/speedtouch were advised of the terms of the gpl. they complied 
> and released the source code to the linux kernel and the gpl'd user 
> space programs but as far as i can see, nothing of the bootloader source.
> 
> would this above be enough to prove thomson was using redboot in their 
> 7G models as well as 5G?

No. Simply building bootloaders is not a problem, only distributing them 
would be.