Western Digital not following the GPL?
Being the nosy person I am, the first thing I've done was to see inside the application package and guess what:
~/WDFirmwareUpdater.app> find . -iname "*.h" -type f -print | xargs grep "GNU General Public License" ./Contents/Frameworks/WDUIKit.framework/Versions/A/Headers/StillCapturer.h:// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ./Contents/Frameworks/WDUIKit.framework/Versions/A/Headers/StillCapturer.h:// GNU General Public License for more details. ./Contents/Frameworks/WDUIKit.framework/Versions/A/Headers/StillCapturer.h:// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
So far I haven't found any source bundle from WD for said framework but this looks like an obvious GPL violation to me - and good job with release control there guys, leaving the .svn directories around was just the finishing touch :)
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 14.8 ms ] threadWDC opensourced all the GPL code inside the firmware for their "smart" (read: linux-based) product, not their desktop code (see also: http://support.wdc.com/download/gpl/)
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