>GPL enforcement in court is seen by some as ineffective, an at-arms-length >approach is not what makes FOSS strong and fits more closed source practices. >LWN had a nice article on that in 2016 "The kernel community confronts GPL >enforcement" [1]. > As Engenius/Senao clearly already for a long time bases its product on (quite > old) versions of OpenWrt (and LUCI !), it shouldn't be impossible to convince > this company to be more cooperative; arguing that it would obviously be in > their own benefit seems not to far fetched.
Yeah, but I've been in federal court doing e-discovery beat down enough times to know this is how the war of attrition is fought. Pro se is $400. e-discovery $300/hr for their expert, knowing district court isn't about winning the trial, it's knowing how to survive standing and venue, and then get through discovery .. plus judge figures "poor random joe vs fancy pants lawyer .. give random a break eh?" .. it's winnable. I've defended a bunch of them for employers, 15 years worth Anyway .. that legal BS aside and cracking the nut that matters .. I've made some progress on it ... by exploiting a bug in an old version of their firmware. Same trick Cydia (et.al.) always use on iOS. so there will be an upgrade path. Firmware isn't auto-updating and downgrade permitted (at the moment) and unsure as to why they'd care at all aside from license agreements and import restrictions (Qualcomm being somewhat infamous for NDAs). This would be a packaged OTA upgrade from the UI like it is on usual ones. Don't hound me though this isn't my day job. Which, while we're at it, I'm in there far enough that if anyone if familiar with clean room and wants to do the other half I will write the spec. -Mike. > all the stuff I shouldn't have top-posted prior now gone :) > thanks for pointing that out Piotr _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
