DSM320 / DSM320RD media center using GPL libs in closed source app

[MR]

Did you ask them for the source code to those apps or search the dlink site
for them?

Alan

On 12/12/06, Jose Bernardo Silva <jose.bandos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I've been trying to edit DLink's DSM320RD firmware, and found out that
> they claim to have complied with the GPL by posting the source to the
> GPLed code they use, and keeping the rest closed source
> (
> ftp://ftp.dlink.de/dsm/DSM-320RD/driver_software/DSM320RD_GPL_release-Sources_ALL_en.tgz
> ).
> What I've found out is that DLink made available on their servers the
> source for the kernel patches they applied, for busybox and a couple
> other apps, but didn't supply the bootloader or the source for the
> main apps, dmaosd, mms and DMARender. I managed to extract the cramfs
> image using this script:
> http://www.jumbuk.com/mods/dsm-320/dsm320.v4.txt. Then I mounted it,
> found a ext2 formatted ramdisk.gz loopbad fs inside, mounted it and
> discovered the closed source apps. Doing a simple ldd on these files,
> I found out they are dynamically linked with a couple GPL libs:
> dmaosd app is dynamically linked to the following libs:
> librmcaribbeanapi.so => not found
> libmatrixssl.so => not found
> libdl.so.0 => /opt/toolchain/arm/gcc-3.2/toolchain/lib/libdl.so.0
> libm.so.0 => /opt/toolchain/arm/gcc-3.2/toolchain/lib/libm.so.0
> libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0
> libc.so.0 => /opt/toolchain/arm/gcc-3.2/toolchain/lib/libc.so.0
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6
> ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> /lib/ld-uClibc.so.0 => /lib/ld-uClibc.so.0
>
> And other two apps (mms and DMAREnder) to these:
> libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0
> libm.so.0 => /opt/toolchain/arm/gcc-3.2/toolchain/lib/libm.so.0
> libc.so.0 => /opt/toolchain/arm/gcc-3.2/toolchain/lib/libc.so.0
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6
> ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> /lib/ld-uClibc.so.0 => /lib/ld-uClibc.so.0
>
> Can this be another GPL violation by DLink? Can we ask them to comply
> with the GPL and release the source code for these apps so one can
> have all the tools needed to edit and perfect the firmware?
> Thank you.
>
>
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