Sarotech abigs DVP570HD possible violation

[mrintegrity]

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
>