LG violates gpl? take 2

[Luca Olivetti]

En/na Kyoungae Kim ha escrit:
> Hi. 
> 
> I'm Kyoungae Kim who is in charge of license issue in LGE.
> 
> 1) We mistakenly missed mstar device driver in initial distribution, 
> however we recently include it in the source code distribution.
> Unfortunately you've found the old version on the net. 

That's what I hoped, but see below.

> 2) ccdv is not relevant to kernel source code directly. 
> We think we don't need to distribute the ccdv because we can build 
> kernel without ccdv. 
> If distributing the ccdv code is mandatory to be compliance with GPL, we 
> can eagerly distribute it also. 

I don't know what ccdv is and if it's needed or not. If it's not needed 
to rebuild the exact same kernel running on the tv, simply remove it 
from the kernel makefile.

> 
> 3) To help your compiling work, we'll distribute the toolchain with the 
> source code also.

Very good, thank you!


> You requested the source code to opensource at lge dot com as I know. 
> You can receive the way to access our system and download the source code. 

Yes, I received your message and replied with the requested data, but I 
wonder why you don't simply put the sources on a publicly accessible 
ftp/web server, like many other manufacturers are doing: since anybody 
is entitled to redistribute the sources anyways, keeping them under 
wraps can only generate the kind of problems I had.

Thank you for your prompt reply.

Bye
-- 
Luca