On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:29 PM, luke.leighton <luke.leigh...@gmail.com> wrote: > this is a quick message to let people know that evidence has been > collected of not just knowingly-infringing copyright but *blatant* > copyright infringment [a la "bring it on, fuckers"] by transcend > technologies. does anyone have any recommendations as to whom should > be contacted in order to pursue a copyright violation case against > transcend? as a minor linux kernel source copyright holder they could > easily and simply remove the source code contributions i have made, > but i would still like to pursue them for copyright infringment. > >
I dont think the majority of linux kernel developers care about enforcement at all. Its virtually public domain as far as i can see, Linus himself will not run after violators. Any company out there is free to do what they want. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: luke.leighton <luke.leigh...@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:25 PM > Subject: Re: Transcend's "one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a > long time" > To: Fernando Cassia <fcas...@gmail.com> > Cc: legal <le...@lists.gpl-violations.org> > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcas...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sorry if this has been already discussed on this list... >> >> http://hackaday.com/2013/09/19/advanced-transcend-wifi-sd-hacking-custom-kernels-x-and-firefox/ >> >> "After all this was done, [Dmitry] finally got a response back from >> one of Transcend’s support engineers. They are “Uninterested” in >> complying with GPL, and he is “free to report this to any Linux >> organization” Ouch! That’s one of the most cavalier GPL violations >> we’ve seen in a long time." > > not only that but it would provide the courts with clear evidence of > blatant copyright infringment. the penalties for such are extremely > high. > > l. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/