Help [SOLVED] Samsung is violating the GPL - FULL details inside

[k0nane]

A great thanks to mkasick and the ACS team (once again...)

I'm not an ACS member.

 

[isujoy]

With ABSOLUTELY NO thanks to Samsung... we now have custom kernel support. XDA user mkasick, who I have worked with several times in the past, solved the issue that shouldn't have even made it out of Samsung's lab. Working source is posted to my Github:

https://github.com/k0nane

So... it's the rom ready?

 

[k0nane]

So... it's the rom ready?

You'll know when it is.

 

[the258]

damn yous 915s

 

[AndroidxGuy]

Look at the respond that I got from them.
Dear Customer, Thank you for your interesting and advice on our product. In case of kernel, some of samsung proprietary codes are not included. (codes that are not affected GPL -loadable modules) There''''s no source code covered under GPL 2.0 license in bootloader and some loadable kernel driver. So, kernel booting can be failed. Please understand we do not guarantee opensource code is executable in target device. Our product source code has some proprietary code so we can''''t released full kernel source code for this phone. It would be appreciated if you can understand our situation. We are sorry for not giving you an correct anwser upto your satisfaction.

To my understanding of the gpl any open source software can be modified but the modification then become open source as well. Am I correct in my understanding? If so why is samsung withholding modifications that should be open source?

 

[wetbiker7]

I sent a copy of the report to the email provided and got this response :



Hello,

Thanks for contacting us recently about Samsung's GPL violations. We
rely on reports like yours to learn about violations we need to
pursue, and we appreciate the time you took to write to us.

Unfortunately, I'm afraid there's not much that the FSF can do
directly in this specific case. We can only enforce the GPL in cases
where we hold copyright on the software involved. That doesn't seem
to be the case here; they're primarily violating the license on the
kernel Linux.

The gpl-violations.org project may be interested in this case. It's
headed up by Harald Welte, who holds the copyright to the netfilter in
Linux, and they've pursued violations like this in the past. You can
contact them at <license-violation@gpl-violations.org>.

Best regards,

--
Brett Smith
Licensing Compliance Engineer, Free Software Foundation

 

[tiede]

Keep the heat on guys!

 

[Alex Ollivier]

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[tiede]

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Huh? I'm confused... am I supposed to be confused?