Getting GPLv2 Compliance From A Chinese Company- In Person!

Why HN readers recommended it

Held up as a rare success story of GPL enforcement against a Chinese hardware company, and admired for the effort.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Naomi Wu

Topic

gpl compliance enforcement

Format

commentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• A Chinese YouTuber has traveled to a company who wouldn’t take the GPL seriously [0]. I wish more people had the nerve to do that instead of letting it slide. [0]: [VIDEO]

• I saw the original video on the Twitters, but didn't check out the followup until now. I'm thrilled that her visit worked and that the files were posted! [VIDEO]

• While I have briefly been to China I cannot claim particularly deep knowledge about Chinese culture, customs & values and thus prefer to turn to people with more knowledge & experience, such as a local: Based on this video by Naomi Wu (a.k.a RealSexyCyborg), it's …