You posted this the other day, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10136522 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10136522 , saying then "The forum [post] wa

You posted this the other day, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10136522 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10136522 , saying then "The forum [post] was the last attempt" after trying all other avenues. I totally get that you are posting this here partially out of a sense of frustration, partially to get people to know what's going on, and I presume also to get support. I think - and this is conjectural - you would get more public support if you include a few more details, such as: "I purchased/downloaded a copy of xIDE from Qualcomm" (as the GPL does not apply upstream when you got it via a third party), "It contains versions of binutils and gcc which are licensed under the GPL. I verified that these are under the GPL copyright by doing XYZ. The license requires that there be a way for me to get the source code from you. Despite many attempts at asking CSR how to get the source code, I have received no answer. This appears to be copyright infringement. If I do not get a response soon, I will be contacting the copyright holders, who have a successful history of prosecuting copyright infringement cases." Unfortunately, that would only help improve public empathy. There is nothing you as a customer can do directly because you are not a copyright holder and have no standing to sue over copyright infringement. Abstractly speaking (since we know this isn't the case here), it could be that CSR has a special waiver to let them use binutils and gcc without having to follow the GPL. You do not know that, nor can you compel them to reveal if they have such an agreement. At this point, your next step should be to read and follow http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html .