On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:06:37PM -0800, John Terhune wrote: >We recently purchased a traffic shaping network device from a company >called Exinda. While the device performs quite well, from looking at a >firmware update image I noticed that it was based on Fedora Core. >Nowhere in their documentation is it mentioned they are using GPLed >software, and there is no offer to release source code. I opened a >ticket with them asking for code under the GPL but was ignored. > >Would this be the appropriate place be to report such a violation? > >Here is some of the text from the build script included with the >firmware image. The bulk of the image is GPG encrypted. > > >BUILD_HOST_OS="LINUX" >export BUILD_HOST_OS >BUILD_HOST_OS_LC="linux" >export BUILD_HOST_OS_LC >BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM="LINUX_FEDORA" >export BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM >BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_LC="linux_fedora" >export BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_LC >BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_VERSION="CORE6" >export BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_VERSION >BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_VERSION_LC="core6" >export BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_VERSION_LC >BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_FULL="LINUX_FEDORA_CORE6" >export BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_FULL >BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_FULL_LC="linux_fedora_core6" While I am certainly not a lawyer, the above seems entirely inconclusive to me. I read that as "This was built on a Fedora Core 6 host." That doesn't mean that the image itself contains GPL code. While it may be very likely that it does, I think you need to dig further to figure that out for sure. josh _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
