On 12/13/2013 12:14 AM, Felix Domke wrote: > novero / novero automotive (www.novero.com) builds a range of handsfree > car gateways which are used in many Volkswagen-group cars, for example > VW, Skoda, Seat, Bentley. > [...] > I was unable to find > > - a GPL license in the owner's manual (but then again, I bought the car > second hand, so the previous owner may have just lost it) > - a written offer for the source code. > [...] > No software (neither binaries nor sourcecode) is available for download > on the manufacturers website. I tried to contact them with a website > form, but got no response.
As a follow up on this, I eventually got a (nice) response from the company Novero. They apologized for not responding to the website form contact (which they said turned out to be broken), and sent me a link to http://novero.com/opensource While the website doesn't have links to any source codes (which I guess is okay because the software is not available for download, but comes preinstalled), it links to the license text including a written offer (in german) for a sourcecode CD. Novero also sent me the CD, and from a first glance, it does contain necessary source codes (I checked Linux and U-Boot, and they seem to be complete; there's a lot of other sourcecode on the CD, mostly for userspace tools). They also pointed out that this license text is supposed to be found in the car's manuals (in the "conformance declaration" part), which I can only assume was thrown away by the previous owner, because I don't have these. I can't verify that this is true or false. >From my perspective, I consider this as solved. Thank you, Felix Domke
