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

[Armijn Hemel]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:56:47AM +0000, Jose Bernardo Silva wrote:

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> 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

*buzz* wrong. What ldd does is to try and found these on your system in
your default library searchpath. Just running ldd is never good proof.

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> 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?

Hm, if there actually is a violation. The matrixssl thing you mentioned is
dual licensed GPL/commercial (see http://www.matrixssl.org/) and we cannot
determine easily which one is being used here. The other library seems to be
some proprietary thing (please correct me if I'm wrong, with proof :) ).

armijn

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