Small claims against vendor?

[Ryan C. Underwood]

Is there any record of someone being successful suing a GPL-violating
vendor in small claims court for the purchase price of the software,
when they refuse to provide, or claim it is impossible for them to
provide source code for the embedded Linux in the product?

The product I am referring to is WipeDrive by White Canyon Software.  I
posted on the issue tracker about it.  They say that they lost the
source code to their customized kernel and point to generic upstream
tarballs, but it is still within the 3 years since date of publication.
They claim that they used some version of System Rescue CD and that I
should contact that group instead for the source code, ignoring White
Canyon's legal obligations.  In any case, the source code for the
version of System Rescue CD that they claim to have used (0.2.14) is no
longer available from www.sysresccd.org although they are still
distributing the binary... sigh.

-- 
Ryan C. Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>

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