Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:29:42 +0100 | Subject | Fwd: Transcend's "one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time" | From | "luke.leighton" <> |
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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 a copyright violation case against transcend? as a minor linux kernel source copyright holder they could easily and simply remove the source code contributions i have made, but i would still like to pursue them for copyright infringment.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: luke.leighton <luke.leighton@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:25 PM Subject: Re: Transcend's "one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time" To: Fernando Cassia <fcassia@gmail.com> Cc: legal <legal@lists.gpl-violations.org>
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry if this has been already discussed on this list... > > http://hackaday.com/2013/09/19/advanced-transcend-wifi-sd-hacking-custom-kernels-x-and-firefox/ > > "After all this was done, [Dmitry] finally got a response back from > one of Transcend’s support engineers. They are “Uninterested” in > complying with GPL, and he is “free to report this to any Linux > organization” Ouch! That’s one of the most cavalier GPL violations > we’ve seen in a long time."
not only that but it would provide the courts with clear evidence of blatant copyright infringment. the penalties for such are extremely high.
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