amicus_curious wrote:
"When Verizon turns around and redistributes to customers, Verizon has obligations."
If Verizon buys routers from Actiontec, it may freely ship them to customers without any GPL obligations. The FSF and SFLC sometimes make overly expansive statements about what the copyright law and the GPL require.
Now Actiontec is indeed publishing the GPL source, but they were never sued either.
They are the manufacturer of Verizon's routers, and are therefore best suited to carry out the GPL obligations involved. If Verizon purchases the routers from them, Verizon may redistribute the routers with no further obligation if Actiontec has made the GPLed sources properly available to Verizon. > OTOH, Verizon is not publishing anything, not even a mention of > the GPL as existing This is false. The Verizon-branded manual which ships with the router contains a paragraph about the GPL, and the router ships with a disk further explaining the GPL (and which may have source code; the manual isn't clear). <http://www.actiontec.com/support_cms/doc_files/MI424WR_Rev._E_User_Manual_20.8.0_v3.pdf> C.4 GPL (General Public License) This product includes software code developed by third parties, including software code subject to the enclosed GNU General Public License (GPL) or GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). The GPL Code and LGPL Code used in this product are distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY and are subject to the copyrights of the authors, and to the terms of the applicable licenses included in the download. For details, see the GPL Code and LGPL Code for this product and the terms of the GPL and the LGPL, which are available on the enclosed product disk and can be accessed by inserting the disk into your CD-ROM drive and opening the “GPL.exe” file.
and totally thumbed their noses at the SFLC
No, they settled and are now compliant with the GPL.
Apparently Verizon no longer has any obligations.
They comply with the GPL. See above.
And you call that a success?
Certainly. They comply with the GPL. See above. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
