Sarotech abigs DVP570HD possible violation

[Peter Robinson]

Hi Alan,

Did you ever hear anything from them? I'd tried emailing them a while
ago (June time frame) but never got a response.

Regards,
Peter

On Sep 23, 2007 9:56 AM, mrintegrity <mrintegrity at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have downloaded this file myself from sarotech firmware download page,
> as Peter says,  it contains a mountable romfs file system with a whole
> bunch of GPL software. The source code for these programs has not been
> made available and there is no mention of the GPL.
>
> I will e-mail them to ask for the source code.
>
> Alan
>
> On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 11:45 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have a Sarotech abigs DVP570HD.
> >
> > http://www.sarotech.com/english/cgi/pd.cgi?cmd=view&rno=19
> >
> > When I was updating the firmware some time ago I discovered that it
> > runs Linux. I found this out the following way.
> >
> > If you download a firmware from here (choose the Flash version not the
> > HDD version).
> > http://www.sarotech.com/english/cgi/main.cgi?cmd=570_firmware
> >
> > Unzip the file, it has a update directory with a abigs.bin file in it.
> > If you do a file on it you get the following:
> >
> > [peterr at avatar-d620 update]$ file abigs.bin
> > abigs.bin: romfs filesystem, version 1 9469808 bytes, named 1.14.
> >
> > Under linux (I'm using Fedora 7) I can do a "mount -o loop abigs.bin /media/"
> >
> > and then change to the mount share
> >
> > Various ls show that its running 2.4.22-em86xx-uc0-sigma as well as
> > busybox and various other linux bits.
> >
> > I've emailed them about it at the details on their contacts page but
> > never got a response.
> >
> > Let me know if you want any other information.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter
> >
>
>
>