[cfarm-users] Spacemit GPL violation (was: Re: Is there a list of funny C compilers?)

[Jing Luo]

On 2025-04-29 10:31, Jacob Bachmeyer via cfarm-users wrote:
> Fun... not only is the source completely missing but there is also no
> copy of the license in the distribution.  So that makes two violations
> off the checklist.

A copy of GPL is actually installed as a manpage in 
./share/man/man7/gpl.7

>> [...]
>> 
>> Who wants to be the first to make an enemy of spacemit, or
>> 
>> shall we send a circularly-signed letter from the compile farm
>> users?
> 
> I suggest handing the matter off to the FSF; they promise to start
> with a nice letter and escalate from there if needed.
> 
> I would have quietly sent it to license-violation at gnu.org but I did
> not want the FSF to get a big stack of reports if others had the same
> idea to quietly send it and it looks like the point-of-contact if FSF
> needs more information may need to be someone who can read Chinese.
> 
> Or should the report to the FSF be a circularly-signed letter from the
> compile farm users? (i.e. Reply-To: cfarm-users)

I'm late but I just sent an email to FSF, CCed Jacob and Martin. I 
started this and it makes sense that I see through it :D

I made two corrections: (1) a copy of GPL is included; (2) their 
prebuilt binaries include glibc, gcc, binutils, llvm-toolchain 
(irrelevant). Not sure if Spacemit made changes to glibc.

>> Golly, love and do what you want, but don't ever upset the
>> cfarm-users!
> 
> 😂


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