On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:33:15AM +0100, Floris Bruynooghe wrote: > Hi Josephine > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:43:40AM +0200, Ciuca, Josephine wrote: > > Hello > > > > I just wanted to let you know about a GPL violation in the distribution > > miniVDR, a distribution based on Depian with so-called GPL licensed > > patches (www.minivdr.de). They refuse to share the sources and are > > willing to give them only for 15euros, which is way abusive and does not > > reflect the price of media and cd-burner usage. They constantly refused > > to share the sources on Sourceforge or any other OSS promoting service > > and even mailed me "the harddisk is broken, so no sources anymore". I > > have mails from the maintainer of the distribution where he stated I > > only get the sources for 15eur and if I think it's expensive, I should > > use other distribution. This is abusive usage of the GPL code. Please > > let me know if I should forward these mails too or if you need anything. > > Personally I have no idea if they can get away with this or not, I'd > hope not but that's just my opinion. > > Debian has no formal way of fighting abuses as far as I know, but > there is a Debian lawyer so maybe I'm wrong. However I'm sure if you > raise the issue with the Free Software Foundation's [1]GPL Compliance > Lab they will know exactly what to do an how to handle this. > > So unless someone else here knows better what to do this is probably > the best thing to do. Altho maybe it should be raised with > debian-legal@lists.debian.org first?
I believe SPI may be more appropriate in this case, not sure though, as they seem to be germany-based. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
