LEGAL: LG Electronics LGPL violations

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Wed Feb 23 17:55:51 UTC 2011


On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 02:07:31 Evgenij Vorobev wrote:
> 2011/2/23 Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>:
> > On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 02:52:19 jenya wrote:
> >> "RELEASE of 50PK550-ZE is dynamically linked now.
> >> We recommend you update your TV with latest version and you can make
> >> RELEASE without object files. "
> >> 
> >> I replied that they were required to provide the object files for the
> >> version that is installed on my TV when buying (am I right? Correct me
> >> if not).
> > 
> > i think this question is better posed to the SFLC.  from my non-lawyer
> > understanding, if they are no longer distributing binary releases, the
> > fact you received one in the past is no longer relevant.  so you could
> > in theory attempt to go after say best buy if they're still selling the
> > outdated models which include static linked binaries.
> 
> Erik Andersen (maintainer of uClibc) know about this. He already
> forward my mail to SFLC.
> LG still selling models with firmware with static linked binary. Few
> weeks ago company where I work, bought two TV LG 50PK250 (build on
> same platform). This TV have firmware version 3.17, which static too.

thanks for the update.  now we can let SFLC do all the legal wrangling and we 
can focus on the code :)
-mike
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