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Re: Fwd: eCos licensing, GPL and chinese gaming machines
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jifl at jifvik dot org>
- To: Anatoly Verkhovsky <anverx at gmail dot com>
- Cc: ecos-maintainers at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:25:40 +0000
- Subject: Re: Fwd: eCos licensing, GPL and chinese gaming machines
- References: <3bff56531003021316i5c92abbfuf82a160f1249aa07@mail.gmail.com> <3bff56531003021321o3c60d2ceja4038ff739337bf5@mail.gmail.com>
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