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Originally Posted by Dave_S
Did you read the brief? 
Your point regarding "request" seemed to be quite clearly covered in the brief. If the statements in the brief can be proven to be true, the violation of the GPL seems to be reasonably obvious.  |
I read all the Lawyer stuff
and the violation is probably valid as it is not easy (if possible at all) to find the required to be available source code at Astak or the other brands sites. We have a good idea that the stuff in violation was probably built and developed by a company with a different name than appears on the product(s) involved. There are some mighty big names involved here at the Retail end of the chain.
There in lies part of the issue. GPL calls for the license requirement to be passed at all levels when GPL code is used. A 50cent CD (that the end user would probably lose) would have probably prevented this whole storm.