From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1504 invoked by alias); 2 Mar 2010 22:25:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 1458 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Mar 2010 22:25:48 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from virtual.bogons.net (HELO virtual.bogons.net) (193.178.223.136) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:25:44 +0000 Received: from jifvik.dyndns.org (jifvik.dyndns.org [85.158.45.40]) by virtual.bogons.net (8.10.2+Sun/8.11.2) with ESMTP id o22MPgt18977; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:25:42 GMT Received: from [192.168.7.9] (unknown [78.32.57.111]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by jifvik.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B9763FE1; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:25:41 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4B8D9064.9090005@jifvik.org> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:25:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100225 Fedora/3.0.2-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anatoly Verkhovsky Cc: ecos-maintainers@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: Fwd: eCos licensing, GPL and chinese gaming machines References: <3bff56531003021316i5c92abbfuf82a160f1249aa07@mail.gmail.com> <3bff56531003021321o3c60d2ceja4038ff739337bf5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3bff56531003021321o3c60d2ceja4038ff739337bf5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-03/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 On 02/03/10 21:21, Anatoly Verkhovsky wrote: > Hello, i was not sure where to ask this, so here is my question: > > Several chinese companies build and sell portable media players based > on SPMP8000 chipset > (produced by chinese company Sunkong). It appears that the > application is built on top of eCos > and Redboot, i'm pretty sure application and OS sources are closed source. > > Are they in violation of GPL? Have they included a written offer to supply you with the source code? If not, then they likely are in violation. It's worth checking through the full documentation, including all the small print, just in case. If you don't have the full documentation (or it's in a different language) then it would be hard to pursue. The following link gives more information: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-violation.html Jifl