Getting GPLv2 Compliance From A Chinese Company- In Person!
Overview
Naomi Wu visits the Shenzhen offices of smartphone maker UMIDIGI in person to get them to release source code they owed under the GPLv2, and they comply.
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Held up as a rare success story of GPL enforcement against a Chinese hardware company, and admired for the effort.
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Video by Naomi Wu, played through YouTube.
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