Re: GPL violation: China Telecom uses a modified linux kernel in its product without sources

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Dec 03 2014 - 16:50:17 EST


Hi!

> I think China Telecom is violating GPL in one of its products, iTV.
> The product uses linux as its OS. To run on MIPS architecture, it does a
> lot of modification to linux kernel. But there is NO source published. I
> phoned them and they just refused to open the source.
> The product 'iTV' is distributed and being used by many people. And I'm
> sure that it uses Linux kernel, for I've checked its UART output.
>

This would be right place to coordinate action:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl-violations.org

...but for some reason, Gpl-violations.org does not work for me.
Pavel
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