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Korg ships a module with their Kronos workstation that re-exports some GPL symbols as non-GPL. They also ship the source for the kernel itself, but "convenient
by marcan_42 5y ago
Korg ships a module with their Kronos workstation that re-exports some GPL symbols as non-GPL.
They also ship the source for the kernel itself, but "conveniently" forgot to include a patch they added for DRM that makes their synthesizer module (yes the synth runs in kernel space) fail to work properly if missing. Some obfuscated change to the CD-ROM subsystem (yes really, they stuck some unrelated protection in there as obfuscation)
Blatant GPL violations are rampant.
- ladyanita22 5y agoWouldn't it just be better to reimplement whatever functionality they require themselves without recurring to GPL modules that break the license and expose them to legal risk?
- pabs3 5y agoYou might want to report that Korg violation to Conservancy: https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/help.html https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/help.html Since you are a Linux kernel developer, you might want to join their Linux GPL compliance program: https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/help.html https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/help.html