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Get the facts then moan you numpties!!!

To all those who just had to make some senseless comment how stupid it was:

The main issue was, that the manufacturer was warned about and he just added a leaflet with the URL for the GPL and the source code:

there two things wrong with it:

You were only able to read the license once you had opened the package (M$, Logitech and some others where done for the same thing years back), so you don't even have the possibility of looking at it, and secondly every CS software vendor expects, that their license is respected and will enforce it if necessary, so why shouldn't it be done with the GPL? the SC was just an added "bonus", and the Judge argued it in this way, because he wanted to ensure, that the source code provided was exactly corresponding to the the one on the phone, so there really wasn't anything wrong with that!

best regards from a Krautlaender!

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