On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 01:00:10AM -0700, Robert Berger wrote: > HI Luc, > > I think the main issue here is how someone can possibly use a chipset where > the software comes with GPL violations in a product and sell this product > worldwide. > > I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that the copyright holder can > file a law suite against whoever sold the product if source code and > friends are not given out. Usually this leads to dishing out the sources, > but if not the copyright holder can disallow certain companies/people to > use the software. Also (depending on the country the products are being > sold) it can be disallowed to further sell products until the dispute is > settled. This would certainly hurt Allwinner and device vendors. > > Till Jaeger (cc'ed here) is a lawyer and an expert with respect to GPL > violations. He can for sure further enlighten us. > > Regards, > > Robert
Thanks Robert, but i hope it doesn't come to that. I am confident that Allwinner will voluntarily fulfill its obligations. Luc Verhaegen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
