Fairphone violating the GPL

[Tobias Platen]

On 08.02.2014 13:00, Carsten Agger wrote:
> What makes you conclude this is a violation of the GPL? It looks
> more like a technical glitch to me.
> 
> On 8. feb. 2014 11.04.03 CET, Tobias Platen
> <tobias at platen-software.de> wrote:
>> Hello
>> 
>> I tried to build a custom kernel for the Fairphone, but I got an
>> error message:
>> 
>> make ARC=arm defconfig
>> 
>> alps/kernel/arch/arm/Makefile:237: alps/kernel/mediatek/Makefile:
>> No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target
>> `alps/kernel/mediatek/Makefile'. Stop.
>> 
>> It seems that the Fairphone (or its ODM) is violating the GPL. I
>> downloaded the kernel from bit.ly/1g5PXRz.
>> 
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> 

The source code is incomplete, so you can't build your own kernel