Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies?

Piranhaa"I currently use an IPTV box that runs software by Minerva Networks. When you ssh into the box, you are greeted with a BusyBox v1.00 (ash) shell. It's clearly running a flavor of Linux (uname -apm outputs: Linux minerva_10_0_3_99 2.4.30-tango2-2.7.144.0 #29 Wed Mar 16 16:16:16 CET 2005 mips unknown). However, when you look at their Web site there is no publicly available source code. Since the GPL in both BusyBox and the Linux kernel require that anyone using and distributing the binaries of this software make source available to everyone, what would one do in order to enforce this? I've personally emailed Minerva and left voicemails with no reply."

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Re:License enforcement

[Eggplant62]

From the Busy Box website: "The email address [gpl (at) busybox DAWT net] is the recommended way to contact the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations." Given the recent history of vigorous enforcement of Copyleft over Busy Box, I'm dead certain that it will receive appropriate attention.

However, for future clarity, I might ask you to review the rules for use of their (possessive implicit pronoun, i.e., "It is their software,") there (indicating location, "The authors put it there,") and they're (conjunction of "they are," "They're going to enforce Copyleft over the work.") Yes, I am the Grammar Police and get paid very well as a result.