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

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "luke.leighton" <luke.leighton@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Transcend's "one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time"
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 16:47:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131008144715.GB29729@xo-6d-61-c0.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPweEDyaEo-7NzEYfxU7Hofq08Raepc_JFevoqF+Nzrwzz2kXQ@mail.gmail.com>

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 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.

Umm, they are already distributing code you wrote, too late to remove it now, no?

Anyway, if product is imported into Germany, Harald Welte normally goes after those.

(pardon wrong date).
										Pavel

> 
> 
> ---------- 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.
> 
> l.
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