Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies?

Piranhaa"I currently use an IPTV box that runs software by Minerva Networks. When you ssh into the box, you are greeted with a BusyBox v1.00 (ash) shell. It's clearly running a flavor of Linux (uname -apm outputs: Linux minerva_10_0_3_99 2.4.30-tango2-2.7.144.0 #29 Wed Mar 16 16:16:16 CET 2005 mips unknown). However, when you look at their Web site there is no publicly available source code. Since the GPL in both BusyBox and the Linux kernel require that anyone using and distributing the binaries of this software make source available to everyone, what would one do in order to enforce this? I've personally emailed Minerva and left voicemails with no reply."

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[Konster]

I'd be a Pointy Haired Boss and comply with any request for GPL'd code by sending the requester the code...printed on paper. ;)

Re:End User Not Owner?

[Anonymous Coward]

I am not normally a grammar nazi. However, when you used the non-standard shortening of the word colocation you created a word that is one letter off from the Brazilian slang term for anus. I therefore read your opening line as "Working at a company with multiple physical distant a**holes..."

Re:Not available to everyone

[HappySmileMan]

But the other 1% of the population are reading this thread right now with the text of the GPL in another tab, so Audiobook Cutter better watch their fucking backs