Max:
It may be time to contact a group like this: https://sfconservancy.org/
especially since MPD is being broadly "exploited" improperly. My understanding
is that there are ways to use proprietary closed source code with open source
code but it must be done in a specific way. I would imagine ROON and MQA could
be employed in GPL compliant ways. IBM, Cisco and Nvidia have figured this out
so its not impossible. Qualcomm has to work with GPL code all the time. They
have more lawyers in California than any other organization because of these
issues.
Cary Audio is in over their heads on this. I'm sure the software guys are not
employees but an outside group he has hired. Cary's main business is tube amps.
Software is not their strength. I'm sure there are other small audio companies
doing similar. A wake up call to all these guys is overdue. I would expect some
group like the one above could help with the message. It seems they have
experience.
Demian
-----Original Message-----
From: mpd-devel [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Max
Kellermann
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 11:43 PM
To: Moritz Molch <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [mpd-devel] Request for GPL source code of
DMS-500_v1.30.9_20170802.zip
On 2018/02/23 01:11, Moritz Molch <[email protected]> wrote:
> The only question is, whether a judge forces him to give you the
> sources or if he does it on his own.
I don't think so. Cary Audio have put themselves in a conflict situation; they
have violated everybody's copyright. But they can't be forced, for example, to
give me the Roon or MQA source code, because they don't own it.
No judge can force them to give me code they aren't allowed to give away. For
Cary Audio, it is impossible to obey the GPL, and thus the copyright violation
cannot be resolved by coming into GPL compliance.
They can only recover from the situation by making an agreement with the
copyright holders whose rights they violated. Billy Wright is a top-level
manager, he knows this, but he's not interested in resolving this properly; he
wants the problem to just go away, to just disappear.
Yes, in the Cary Audio case, I have already understood that it is impossible
for them to publish the Roon/MQA source code. But at this stage, that's not
what I'm after.
Cary Audio didn't even publish the sources of code they themselves wrote, of
which they own the copyright. The source tarball I got was heavily redacted,
and lots of Cary Audio code was removed.
I think it is obvious that I cannot forgive them with this kind of behavior.
> This verdict against Skype Technologies might be of interest
> (German):
This is mostly about formal stuff (whether Skype's formal license declaration
is enough), but I don't want to go after Cary Audio for formal mistakes. These
don't matter much for me. I only want them to respect the spirit of the GPL,
which is: make the full source code available.
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