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Another GPL win in GermanyAnother GPL win in GermanyPosted Sep 23, 2006 17:55 UTC (Sat) by pcampe (subscriber, #28223)Parent article: Another GPL win in Germany
When I found a software which is a Linux based rescue disk for Windows systems, distributed in a violation of the GPL (no source code, and the full functional version is a commercial product) I remember of the GPL violation project, and wrote them to tell about this thing. It was more of one month ago, and I got only an auto-reply message. My email wasn't posted on the associated mailing lists. Some days ago, I wrote to the webmaster of gpl-violations.org, re-explaining the story, and still got no success.
I can understand how difficult is to work on this field, and I appreciate what they do. But I think they can find a way to better interact with people reporting possible violations of the GPL license.
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Another GPL win in Germany Posted Sep 23, 2006 18:40 UTC (Sat) by anonymous21 (guest, #30106) [Link] Try FSF license-violation@gnu.orghttp://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html
Another GPL win in Germany Posted Sep 25, 2006 7:08 UTC (Mon) by MKallas (guest, #38539) [Link] Harald Welte has only limited manpower, so he focuses on violations where code is in play he himself holds copyrights on. That's mainly netfilter / iptables stuff.
Another GPL win in Germany Posted Sep 25, 2006 14:16 UTC (Mon) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link] I don't think [IANAL] he would have standing to sue if the product in question did not include material that he personally held the copyright on.
Another GPL win in Germany Posted Sep 26, 2006 8:36 UTC (Tue) by laf0rge (subscriber, #6469) [Link] We currently have 185 open tickets (i.e. reported GPL violations) at gpl-violations.org. You cannot expect us to respond to every case within the short time of something like a month. I have a dayjob (involves writing free software) that occupies already some 60-70hrs a week, I'm involved with may NGO's, I do free softwre in my spare time and next to all that I also do some GPL enforcement. Volunteers can answer to easy cases, but any kind of (legal or non-legal) action has to go through me. Thanks for your understanding.
Another GPL win in Germany Posted Sep 26, 2006 14:31 UTC (Tue) by pcampe (subscriber, #28223) [Link] >We currently have 185 open tickets (i.e. reported GPL violations) at>gpl-violations.org.
I'm not sure to understand of what you define as a ticket, as it seems to me that the only way to report a violation is a message on the mailing list, not a ticketing system.
>You cannot expect us to respond to every case within the short time of
I did not ask for a respond, I understand that an answer takes time and resources, my point it that my e-mail didn't get published in the mailing list as is still pending for approval, and this because I am not a mailing list member, not for legal reasons. I think that if the mail is published, you can get in touch with other people who use the same software and they might be of help in analyzing it, pressure the "author" and so on, otherwise is more a private conversation.
Surely, this kind of community may work differently than the average FLOSS one, it's more legal than technical, and this makes your work unvaluable.
But, please start to think if this is the best method to get critical mass, because when the-average-floss-advocate sees that the violations mailing list has about 5 mail per month he may think that there are not violations, and not need of help.
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