Re: GPL Violation of Linux in Telsey Video Station Product

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 08:44, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On Monday 04 October 2004 12:16, Alessandro Sappia wrote:
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> > Good Morning,
> > I'm a Customer of a broadband ISP in Italy; They sell ont only the
> > connection, but they add VoIP Phone and TVoIP. (Both TV on Demand and TV
> > Broadcasting).
> > I bought a Video Station branded by my carrier and surprisingly I found
> > that the operating system the use is a modified version of linux.
> > It was possible for me to see it because the Videostation Itself is just
> > a PC with an Ethernet Card on it and it does boot from remotely.
> 
> Does it itself contain Linux? It is possible that bootstrap
> tftp loader isn't Linux. In this case Videostation itself does not
> contain Linux until you turn it on.
> 
> But downloading Linux kernel and GPLed software via
> tftp and NFS is itself an act of distribution, and I think you
> have the right to obtain source from distributor (in this case,
> your ISP).
> 

I'm all for the GPL and making sure it's followed, but could we move
such discussions some place else?  This is supposed to be a development
list.  Maybe creating a linux-gpl list (or whatever) would be better?

josh

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