On 05/12/2014 09:24 PM, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
Could you tell me a bit more about this? I have the device itself for
much longer than 3 years. I only recently found out it's based on
Linux. The firmware update images are still available on their website
though. Of course I hope the company will try to comply with the GP
License once they are pointed out that they distributed the software
without any license. Thanks! Julius
As others have mentioned - you could still try to contact them.
They have a couple of options.
The company in principle may choose to distribute the code without a
licence, in which case you have
no rights other than rights that come from the original author to use
the code, or various consumer
rights legislation (they sold you a partially broken thing in that it
has unlicenced software on it).
They can either - as I understand it - choose to act as if they meant to
comply with the GPL -and
give you the code, or that they would have complied - and had meant to -
but that it's been 3 years
since distribution.
You have very limited remedy if they choose not to distribute -
generally the only ones with standing to
take action would be the copyright holders.
(This sort-of-assumes that it goes past their first-level support people)
