[vdr] Re: commercial vdr box

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> 
> Am Sa, den 27.03.2004 schrieb Clemens Kirchgatterer um 19:50:
> > if sombody got the binaries from a third person,
> > he may request the source from you, at least by mail order.
> 
> wrong. he may request the source from the third person because the third
> person distributed binaries.
> 
> these discussions suck. why don't you just read the linux kernel
> archives or some other spammed lists where this kind of discussion pops
> up every once in a while? there you could learn a lot, for instance that
> these discussions are useless. they don't change anything. italian law
> applies here. are you experienced with it?
> 
> according to common sense you only have the right to get the source code
> if you bought such a thing becauso only then you received binaries from
> the manufacturer.
> 
> and you can only claim license violations if you are the licensor. who
> knows.. maybe Klaus decided to choose a different license for them?

I didn't. I am in no way affiliated with them or any other commercial STB
manufacturer. All I do is to write VDR and publish it under the GPL. I don't
mind if somebody builds a commercial box and uses VDR (or a modified version
thereof) to run it - as long as they give proper credits to the author(s)
of whatever software they use. I guess doing so by a short note in the manual
is ok.

Of course, I have no way of checking what they are actually distributing...

Klaus


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