GPL Case Against Danish Satellite Provider

[Dave Cramer]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:20 AM, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Michael Lauzon wrote:
> > >From Slashdot (
> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/08/16/001254/GPL-Case-Against-Danish-Satellite-Provider
> ):
> >
> > The number of satellite and cable boxes on the Danish market using
> > Linux has significantly increased during the last couple of years. The
> > providers Viasat (http://www.viasat.dk/), Yousee
> > (http://www.yousee.dk/) and Stofa (http://www.stofa.dk/) all provide
> > HD receivers based on Linux, and all of them fail to provide the
> > source code or make customers aware of the fact that the units are
> > based on GPL licensed software. I decided it was time to fix this
> > situation and luckily the Danish legal company BvHD
> > (http://www.bvhd.dk/) has decided to take the case. We are starting
> > with Viasat, which distributes a Samsung box including middleware and
> > security from NDS, and you can follow the case here
> > (http://duff.dk/viasat).
> >
> >
> How does it work, if they don't make the box?  I have a Samsung Blu-ray
> player and it contains the GPL etc. in the manual.  Now if Samsung
> included it in the manual, but the companies distributing the box don't
> pass on the manuals, who's at fault?  Does Samsung have the source code
> on their web site?


More interesting is that according to the GPL the original authors have to
make the complaint. So each individual project has to make a legal
complaint.



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