Re: Possible GPL violation (Panda Security)
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Michael Shepard <joelisester@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have contacted Panda Security about a GPL violation with their Rescue CD
> technology. Previously it utilized ISOLINUX and an ncurses program. Recently
> they switched to using Debian, so that they could provide a user-friendly
> interface to their customers. The only problem is that they do not provide
> the source code for Debian. I have searched their website with no success.
Looks like they are using lenny Debian Live, interesting.
> I have contacted them about this issue, indicating that it opens them up to
> lawsuits (since this usually gets people's attention). I have not received a
> response. I thought it would be better for someone more closely related to
> the project to get in contact with these people.
I would suggest that you contact the copyright holders of the software
distributed on their CD image. That includes Linux folk, the FSF and
so on, see /live/packages.txt in the iso for a list of packages
installed in the squashfs image. Also, gpl-violations.org is a better
group of people for initial contact about GPL violations, debian-legal
is just a discussion list.
For the benefit of the other people on this list, the CD is available here:
http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/support/card?id=80152&idIdioma=2
http://www.pandasecurity.com/resources/sop/SafeCD/PandaSafeCD.iso
http://www.techmixer.com/panda-rescue-cd/
http://www.pandasecurity.com/resources/tools/SafeCD.iso
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bye,
pabs
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