2015-05-08, 15:40
You are right Schumi. What I said was; IF and again between bracket mention he is currently not doing it. (Although I doubt he even has the sources himself as he might not even compile his own binary.)
We know "it is just" Kodi, his customers don't and therefor also don't know they should have received a copy of the license with it. For all they know, they just bought the "special Dit is TV-OS". That is why I think the Trademark things makes the GPL thing so much harder to check.
But than again;
- Do you want them to put them on the wall of shame? It doesn't mention XBMC/Kodi somewhere so what is the point.
- Do you want to sue them? Copyright falls under civil rights in most of the EU countries and therefor, the author itself needs to dare him into court. That is very costly as both parties pay their own legal costs and he could just choose not to bring any lawer nor make any cost. And then what is their to gain? You can't really ask for money as you need to prove you any damage. Do you really make all those costs just for the source? Even after you win, you can't check he is really giving it as well to customers who ask for it.
We know "it is just" Kodi, his customers don't and therefor also don't know they should have received a copy of the license with it. For all they know, they just bought the "special Dit is TV-OS". That is why I think the Trademark things makes the GPL thing so much harder to check.
But than again;
- Do you want them to put them on the wall of shame? It doesn't mention XBMC/Kodi somewhere so what is the point.
- Do you want to sue them? Copyright falls under civil rights in most of the EU countries and therefor, the author itself needs to dare him into court. That is very costly as both parties pay their own legal costs and he could just choose not to bring any lawer nor make any cost. And then what is their to gain? You can't really ask for money as you need to prove you any damage. Do you really make all those costs just for the source? Even after you win, you can't check he is really giving it as well to customers who ask for it.