Sent via support portal on November 18th, 2016
Dear OpenMesh support,
I would like to kindly ask you for source code of software components you're distributing in binary form in your 6.1.1 firmware in your OM5P-ACv2 and MR1750 products which I've bought recently. I'm mainly interested in source code of U-Boot bootloader and Linux kernel parts, both are licensed to OpenMesh under GNU Public License.
Providing customers with the source code, along with any modifications, is a requirement of the GNU Public License http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html (please see section 3).
BTW, there is nice vendor FAQ for GNU Public License compliance http://gpl-violations.org/faq/vendor-faq/
Thanks!
Best regards,
Petr Štetiar
Hi Sven,
This is how the file was named at first contact with Open Mesh requesting the sources. If you look into the tarball, the folder name is still ELX_Uboot_sdk_20161201. It seems that the tarball filename was changed at 01.02.2017 (according to the Google Drive activity) and we have just missed that change.
I fully agree that we did make a mistake here. We didn't spend enough time analyzing the content of the provided file and checking what it exactly contains. We are going to add a notice about this mistake in the blog post.
Cheers,
Piotr