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I worked at a company where we built surveillance video recorders. We used GNU/Linux as the OS in the video recorder and we didn't have anywhere in the docs saying so. I got lured in by the fact that it was a Linux company (so yes it wasn't a secret) but then it turned out that we did a botched job respecting the GPL. What bothered me was that nobody really cared about it.



How exactly did you violate the GPL? It is not forbidden to use GNU/Linux or free software in commercial projects.


You have at the very least to say that what you are distributing is GPL software and offer the posibility to give the source code if requested.




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