20090701 Two New Violations of the GPL Get Reports ASUS ScummVM

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FYI: GPL violation by Scartel/ASUS

Hello! This mail was sent to you, since you are one of copyright holders of software which used in ASUSTeK Computer WMVN25E2+ WiMAX Subscriber Station. At current (2009-06-30) time ASUSTeK sells the above device through their Russian exclusive partner "Scartel" Ltd. (trade name "Yota") with next GPL violations: 1) They didn't give any access for customers to source codes of GPLed software, see (possibly not full) list below, on the ground of their "intellectual property" defense. 2) They sold their product without mentioning Gnu Public License (and without copy of GPL certainly), nor in printed version of "Quick Start Guide", nor in electronic version of "User Manual", nor in any other form.

http://lists.gpl-violations.org/pipermail/legal/2009-June/001640.html GPL, ScummVM and violations

I am sure you saw the news post item about certain GPL violation. Let me present here some more details about the case.

http://sev-notes.blogspot.com/2009/06/gpl-scummvm-and-violations.html