Re: Transcend's "one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time"

2013-10-27 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/15/2013 01:42:56 AM, Rogelio Serrano wrote: On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: You have a piece of code under the GPL and the majority of the copyright holders say they will not enforce it. Thats virtually public domain code. Thats why i stopped contributing to the linux

Re: Transcend's one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time

2013-10-27 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/15/2013 01:42:56 AM, Rogelio Serrano wrote: On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Pavel Machek pa...@ucw.cz wrote: You have a piece of code under the GPL and the majority of the copyright holders say they will not enforce it. Thats virtually public domain code. Thats why i stopped contributing

Re: Transcend's "one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time"

2013-10-15 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2013-10-15 07:42:56, Rogelio Serrano wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > > >> > >> 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

Re: Transcend's "one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time"

2013-10-15 Thread Mats Liljegren
> I was led to believe this in the busybox list. maybe we are communally > smoking the same stuff. Linux Kernel Developers would rather go on > developing better code than waste time on enforcement. Some even think > it is counter productive to adoption of linux. > > Transcend most likely knows

Re: Transcend's "one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time"

2013-10-15 Thread Rogelio Serrano
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: >> >> 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

Re: Transcend's one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time

2013-10-15 Thread Rogelio Serrano
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Pavel Machek pa...@ucw.cz wrote: 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

Re: Transcend's one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time

2013-10-15 Thread Mats Liljegren
I was led to believe this in the busybox list. maybe we are communally smoking the same stuff. Linux Kernel Developers would rather go on developing better code than waste time on enforcement. Some even think it is counter productive to adoption of linux. Transcend most likely knows this.

Re: Transcend's one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time

2013-10-15 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2013-10-15 07:42:56, Rogelio Serrano wrote: On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Pavel Machek pa...@ucw.cz wrote: 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

Re: Transcend's "one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time"

2013-10-13 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2013-10-08 17:08:22, Rogelio Serrano wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:29 PM, luke.leighton > 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,

Re: Transcend's one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time

2013-10-13 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2013-10-08 17:08:22, Rogelio Serrano wrote: 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

Re: Transcend's "one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time"

2013-10-08 Thread Rogelio Serrano
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:29 PM, luke.leighton 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

Re: Fwd: Transcend's "one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time"

2013-10-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > 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

Re: Fwd: Transcend's one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time

2013-10-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! 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

Re: Transcend's one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time

2013-10-08 Thread Rogelio Serrano
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

Fwd: Transcend's "one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time"

2013-09-20 Thread luke.leighton
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

Fwd: Transcend's one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time

2013-09-20 Thread luke.leighton
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