[Fedora-legal-list] Fedora GPL Violation

[Richard Fontana]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:06:37PM -0800, John Terhune wrote:
> We recently purchased a traffic shaping network device from a company
> called Exinda. While the device performs quite well, from looking at a
> firmware update image I noticed that it was based on Fedora Core.
> Nowhere in their documentation is it mentioned they are using GPLed
> software, and there is no offer to release source code. I opened a
> ticket with them asking for code under the GPL but was ignored.

John,

Red Hat Legal Affairs is investigating this. Thanks for bringing this
to our attention.

Regards,
 
Richard E. Fontana
Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel
Red Hat, Inc.
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