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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 9 years ago 2014-11-07 12:53:12
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Begin section explaining purchasing on open market
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@@ -293,6 +293,21 @@ embedded electronics product.  The product in question is
 
  investigates a potential GPL violation.  In this case, obviously, no
 
  violation was uncovered.}
 

	
 
\section{Consumer Purchase and Unboxing}
 

	
 
The process for copyleft compliance investigation, when properly conducted,
 
determines whether users inclined to exercise their rights under a copyleft
 
license will be successful in their attempt.  Therefore, at every stage, the
 
investigator seeks to take actions that reasonably technically knowledgeable
 
users would during the ordinary course of their acquisition and use of
 
products.  As such, the investigator typically purchases the device on the
 
open market to verify that distribution of the copylefted software therein
 
complies with binary distribution requirements(such as those
 
\tutorialpartsplit{discussed in \textit{Detailed Analysis of the GNU GPL and
 
    Related Licenses}}{discussed herein \S~\ref{GPLv2s3} and
 
  \S~\ref{GPLv3s6}}.
 

	
 

	
 
\section{Root Filesystem and Kernel Compilation}
 

	
 
* We found a CD included in the box that the ThinkPenguin TPE-NWIFIROUTER
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