[Fedora-legal-list] Fedora GPL Violation

[John Terhune]

Ooops, looks like I copied the wrong section of the build script.
Build target is much more incriminating than build host.

BUILD_TARGET_OS="LINUX"
export BUILD_TARGET_OS
BUILD_TARGET_OS_LC="linux"
export BUILD_TARGET_OS_LC
BUILD_TARGET_PLATFORM="LINUX_FEDORA"
export BUILD_TARGET_PLATFORM
BUILD_TARGET_PLATFORM_LC="linux_fedora"
export BUILD_TARGET_PLATFORM_LC
BUILD_TARGET_PLATFORM_VERSION="CORE6"
export BUILD_TARGET_PLATFORM_VERSION
BUILD_TARGET_PLATFORM_VERSION_LC="core6"
export BUILD_TARGET_PLATFORM_VERSION_LC
BUILD_TARGET_PLATFORM_FULL="LINUX_FEDORA_CORE6"
export BUILD_TARGET_PLATFORM_FULL
BUILD_TARGET_PLATFORM_FULL_LC="linux_fedora_core6"
export BUILD_TARGET_PLATFORM_FULL_LC

John

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:06:37PM -0800, John Terhune wrote:
>>We recently purchased a traffic shaping network device from a company
>>called Exinda. While the device performs quite well, from looking at a
>>firmware update image I noticed that it was based on Fedora Core.
>>Nowhere in their documentation is it mentioned they are using GPLed
>>software, and there is no offer to release source code. I opened a
>>ticket with them asking for code under the GPL but was ignored.
>>
>>Would this be the appropriate place be to report such a violation?
>>
>>Here is some of the text from the build script included with the
>>firmware image. The bulk of the image is GPG encrypted.
>>
>>
>>BUILD_HOST_OS="LINUX"
>>export BUILD_HOST_OS
>>BUILD_HOST_OS_LC="linux"
>>export BUILD_HOST_OS_LC
>>BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM="LINUX_FEDORA"
>>export BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM
>>BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_LC="linux_fedora"
>>export BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_LC
>>BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_VERSION="CORE6"
>>export BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_VERSION
>>BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_VERSION_LC="core6"
>>export BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_VERSION_LC
>>BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_FULL="LINUX_FEDORA_CORE6"
>>export BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_FULL
>>BUILD_HOST_PLATFORM_FULL_LC="linux_fedora_core6"
>
> While I am certainly not a lawyer, the above seems entirely
> inconclusive to me.  I read that as "This was built on a
> Fedora Core 6 host."  That doesn't mean that the image itself
> contains GPL code.
>
> While it may be very likely that it does, I think you need
> to dig further to figure that out for sure.
>
> josh
>