RE: possible GPL violation by Sigma Designs

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Sat Nov 29 2003 - 00:01:22 EST


On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 03:23, Iain Barker wrote:
> All,
>
> I purchased a Liteon LVD2001 DVD player which uses this Sigma EM8500 chipset
> and firmware running Linux. I wanted to compile kernel support for other
> devices in the PCMCIA slot of this DVD player but source code for their
> modified kernel is not provided.

Just to make things clear, you should change the title of your emails
here to "possible GPL violation by Liteon". AFAIK, Sigma isn't involved
in the violation, they almost certainly provided a source code kernel
for their chipset to Liteon.

Ben.


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