I received a contact from TeliaSonera to handle this matter. (I don't have any idea how good the contact is other than it was forwarded to me by my lawyer contact.)
The contact is
antti.vihavainen@teliasonera.com; and the following message in Finnish:
-------------------------- Moi,
Sain viestin, että tarvitsisit apua Zyxel asiassa ?
Kuinka voin auttaa asiassa ?
Best Regards/Terveisin; --------------------------------------------------- Antti ---------------------------------------------------
Br, Martin
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Hi
I pushed a message to my contact at TeliaSonera (the current name of Sonera); and he is asking for more details:
- Is it ok to tell the name of the person who is asking?
- Who has been the contact at TeliaSonera until now?
- What is the exact model number of the product?
Best, Martin
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-----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Otto Kekäläinen [mailto:otto@fsfe.org] Lähetetty: 4. syyskuuta 2014 10:35 Vastaanottaja: ftf@fsfeurope.org; Matija Šuklje Kopio: denis.zalevskiy@fsfe.org; finland@fsfe.org Aihe: [Finland] Fwd: looking for help with GPL "explaining" to Sonera
Hello,
As recommended at https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/reporting-fixing-violations I forwarded this report to ftf@fsfeurope.org, they should be most apt to help
you.
FTF: Thomas is my friend and he spends a lot of his day work time writing Free Software. Please advice him with this issue. If something needs to be written in Finnish to Sonera, I can write it if I have a template in
English to translate.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Thomas B. Rücker" thomas@ruecker.fi Date: 2014-09-04 10:12 GMT+03:00 Subject: looking for help with GPL "explaining" to Sonera
Hi,
thought I'd reach out to you, as you are well established in the Finnish open source community.
Sonera doesn't seem to understand the concept of GPL. When I asked them for the GPL et al. sources of my router a year ago, they refused and pointed to Zyxel. Sure, you _can_ resort to just asking the OEM, but legally the company that sold you the device is on the hook for GPL
compliance.
I'm currently trying to get a proper contact, as I'm discussing some security issues with NCSC/CERT-FI and Sonera, but that doesn't seem to be going anywhere either GPL wise. For the previous device I just asked Zyxel directly and they were reasonably fast and diligent, once I found the right contact. I was thinking that someone should explain to Sonera legal what all this is, maybe FSFE or such.
Another thing is that there is no indication whatsoever in the package that the device contains GPL and other licensed software. No written note, nothing. Only after you take the CD from the package and go to the last pages of the system integrator manual, you'll find something resembling a GPL notice. I'm unsure, this may legally be still OK, but sure is
considered bad style.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on those issues.
Thanks in advance, best regards
Thomas
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