Re: Regarding case number 10724899 [ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ]
David Christensen wrote:
> On 2020-09-28 09:26, discsupport@seagate.com wrote:
> > Hello David Christensen,
> >
> I have asked three times that you make a binary image of Seagate SeaTools
> Bootable available, and have received delay, diversionary, and denial
> tactics in response. I will ask no more.
>
>
> Free Software Foundation -- Please investigate and respond.
>
>
> United States Department of Justice -- Please investigate and respond.
I'm pretty sure that even if Seagate claimed that SeaTools
Bootable is distributed under the terms of GPLv2, they don't
have a responsibility to send you a binary image of it -- only
to make the source code available.
The US DoJ is unlikely to be interested unless you have an
actual theory of antitrust violation and damages to go along
with that. For the next month or four, it would also have to
be personally offensive to a member of the President's family.
You might want to try again in February.
FSF might be interested, if any of their assigned software is
being used; if busybox is being used, you should talk to the
Software Freedom Conservancy.
The essence of the BSD license(s) is "go use it and change it"
with a side-order of "and publish this copyright notice". They
are unlikely to be overly concerned.
-dsr-
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