Rohde vs Viasat on GPL/LGPL (Viasat GPL violation)

“The Samsung DSB-H670N is distributed with Linux and busybox,
which are both under GPL. When you buy the product they do not
mention it makes use of GPL/LGPL software and there is no offer to
receive the corresponding source code. To make matters worse they
have also statically linked the main binary in the box against
uClibc…

“No word from Viasat A/S and I am beginning to think this case
will only be solved by taking legal action. I therefore contacted
Martin von Haller Grønbæk, who is known for previously
taking part in the legal case involving Kiss making use of parts of
the GPL’ed MPlayer code in their products. Martin von Haller
Grønbæk works for the legal company named Bender von
Haller Dragsted and has a deep interest in Open Source. I have seen
him give very interesting talks at Open Source conferences and
found him to be the perfect match for this case. Luckily he also
finds the case interesting and is most likely willing to take
it.”

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