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

From: Rogelio Serrano <rogelio.serrano@gmail.com>
To: "luke.leighton" <luke.leighton@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Transcend's "one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time"
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 17:08:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANszf4iyed-tCBK7g8HEWgBpTXydSwcsRTA1UzyxZhN1uy0vQg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPweEDyaEo-7NzEYfxU7Hofq08Raepc_JFevoqF+Nzrwzz2kXQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:29 PM, luke.leighton <luke.leighton@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>

I dont think the majority of linux kernel developers care about
enforcement at all. Its virtually public domain as far as i can see,
Linus himself will not run after violators.

Any company out there is free to do what they want.

> ---------- 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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