Hello,
I have looked at the mailing list archives and saw that the topic of GPL compliance has been raised before. [1]
From my searching it doesn't seem like any of the previous threads on GPL
compliance resulted in the vendor providing the source code or any conclusive enforcement action happening.
I own several devices from various manufacturers (Cisco, Gigabyte, Siglent) which use u-boot and for which there was no included written offer for source code provided with the product. I am reasonably confident the vendor has not made the u-boot source code publicly available.
For the above vendors, the u-boot GPL source code was requested via various channels and the request has been either ignored for an extended period of time (12+ months) after acknowledgement of receipt, or actively declined.
I know that other open-source projects such as busybox are members of the Software Freedom Conservancy, who represent their copyright holders when vendors refuse to provide GPL source code. [2]
Does anything similar exist for u-boot/denx?
Kind regards, Hal Martin
[1] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2013-February/147191.html