GPL Case Against Danish Satellite Provider

Rohde writes "The number of satellite and cable boxes on the Danish market using Linux has significantly increased during the last couple of years. The providers Viasat, Yousee and Stofa all provide HD receivers based on Linux, and all of them fail to provide the source code or make customers aware of the fact that the units are based on GPL licensed software. I decided it was time to fix this situation and luckily the Danish legal company BvHD has decided to take the case. We are starting with Viasat, which distributes a Samsung box including middleware and security from NDS, and you can follow the case here."

Comments

Positive move?

[Old Wolf]

This is going to be great for the uptake of Linux, and will really encourage people to use open-source tools instead of rolling their own proprietary black box. Keep up the good work!

Re:13 whole days to lawsuit

[Seraphim_72]

Why did they "track you down"?

If you had "direct contact" you never said that on your website, In any event perhaps the word 'direct' means something different for you. How long should you wait? No idea, but a month is good bet I guess. Considering you are waxing legal I would say 3 months. Heck it takes 6-8 weeks to get your cereal box top rewards, I can only imagine legal takes longer. I would be nice of them to say they are working on it.... however it is not required. Sueing them will make it take longer.

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