Dlink probably violate GPL again with their DIR-45X ?

Macpaul Lin macpaul at gmail.com
Mon Sep 17 03:54:44 CEST 2007


Hi all,

I've bought a DIR-450 and has downloaded its source tar ball from
ftp://ftp.dlink.com/GPL/DIR-450/dir45x_sourcecode.tgz
But I've found they did release the complete compilation environment.
And I've opened the box and found its flash is a 8MB "MX 29LV640BTTC".
However their kernel source says it is a 4MB flash. #$@#$
"/dlink/dir45x/Kernel/linux2425/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c" <-- the mtd
memory partition.
They just release the source of kernel and several well-known GPL
applications.
They didn't release the source of the toolchians.
They also didn't release the compilation configuration such as main Makefile
so I couldn't build the kernel with correct configuration.
They also didn't release the executable tools for me to make a image header.

I have a question first. Do they violated GPL under such kind of situation?
Could anyone here help me to push them to release a complete buildable
environment?

Thanks a lot.

-- 
Best regards,
Macpaul
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