On Tue, 23 May 2006, Ciuca, Josephine wrote: > I just wanted to let you know about a GPL violation in the > distribution miniVDR, a distribution based on Depian with so-called > GPL licensed patches (www.minivdr.de). They refuse to share the > sources and are willing to give them only for 15euros, which is way > abusive and does not reflect the price of media and cd-burner usage. > They constantly refused to share the sources on Sourceforge or any > other OSS promoting service and even mailed me "the harddisk is > broken, so no sources anymore". I have mails from the maintainer of > the distribution where he stated I only get the sources for 15eur > and if I think it's expensive, I should use other distribution. This > is abusive usage of the GPL code. Please let me know if I should > forward these mails too or if you need anything.
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/minivdr/MVDR-Software/MVDR-1.3/MiniVDR-1.3.iso is where they're distributing Debian without complying with any of GPL 3. Looks to be a pretty open and closed case;[1] forwarding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that they can examine the issue. [Since they routinely deal with this sort of case, it's probably easiest for them to just handle it, so I'd suggest just allowing their process to occur normally.] Don Armstrong 1: Assuming that cd actually has a CDD on it; I haven't chacked myself. -- Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. -- Richard Feynman http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
