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Good advice, one quibble: > Only the copyright holder has the right to take any action against a licensee violating the terms of their license This might not
by chalst 13y ago
Good advice, one quibble:
> Only the copyright holder has the right to take any action against a licensee violating the terms of their license
This might not be true. If you can successfully argue that:
1. You bought the hardware because you believed their promise that you would have access to the sources they used, and
2. The value of the device is materially impaired by not having access to the source
then you would have (IMO, IANAL) a trade descriptions case. If you want to audit your phone system for security reasons, say, then the above might apply.
- onestone 13y agoIt's definitely not true, at least in some countries. For example, France: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/09/big-gpl-copyright-enforcement-win-in-paris-court-of-appeals/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/09/big-gp... "It's a commonly held belief that only the copyright holder of a work can enforce the license's terms—but that's not true in France. People who received software under the GNU GPL can also request compliance, since the license grants them rights from the authors." After all, the rights of the customer (to receive the source code) are also being violated.