On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:02:04PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:43:40AM +0200, Ciuca, Josephine <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello > > > > I just wanted to let you know about a GPL violation in the distribution > > miniVDR, a distribution based on Depian with so-called GPL licensed > > patches (www.minivdr.de). They refuse to share the sources and are > > willing to give them only for 15euros, which is way abusive and does not > > reflect the price of media and cd-burner usage. They constantly refused > > to share the sources on Sourceforge or any other OSS promoting service > > and even mailed me "the harddisk is broken, so no sources anymore". I > > have mails from the maintainer of the distribution where he stated I > > only get the sources for 15eur and if I think it's expensive, I should > > use other distribution. This is abusive usage of the GPL code. Please > > let me know if I should forward these mails too or if you need anything. > > Do they distribute the binary version freely or is it that the binary > AND the source are available for 15 euros ? If the latter, there is no > infringement of the GPL.
They have an ISO image for download at http://minivdr.de/download/index.php, I've downloaded that and they appear to have the binaries on them. The licence on that CD is shown as GPL, but I found no sources. Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]