Various Buffalo GPL violations

Sebastian Gottschall s.gottschall at newmedia-net.de
Fri Feb 9 13:33:03 CET 2007


Hello

I talked today with the Buffalo product management about the various GPL 
violations within the Buffalo product line. especially about the new 
WHR-HP-AG108
(Redboot, Linux Kernel etc.)
right now there is no GPL source offered in any way. Sourcecodes for 
other products are almost outdated or do not fit to the product itself.
The main problem with Buffalo here in Germany or UK is that everything 
is controlled by the Japanese headquarter and they do not care about 
anything. so the guy from Buffalo
aggreed with me that there must someone take a action against it, 
otherwise this situation will never change.
I hope GPL-Violations could do something to solve these problems or help 
to enforce Buffalo to release the sourcecodes for all GPL releated 
Buffalo products.
The main important products are Buffalo WHR-G54s, Buffalo WHR-HP-G54, 
Buffalo WHR-HP-AG108. for the first 2 products sourcecodes are offered 
but do not contain
the right sources (just reference sources from broadcom and not the 
buffalo sources and also outdated as hell). for the WHR-HP-AG108 which 
is a Atheros WiSOC based product
there is no sourcecode available or offered in any way.


regards,
Sebastian Gottschall



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