Another Dynamode - R-ADSL-C4-2

[William Gallafent]

On 16 Feb 2008, at 10:14, Armijn Hemel wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 00:17 +0000, Ian Stirling wrote:
>> This is a 4 port ADSL router with no wireless.
>
> There are tons of routers that are Linux based, but that doesn't mean
> anything. I am assuming that want to say there is a GPL violation in
> this device (otherwise, why send it here?), but I miss the proof.


I posted about a similar device a long time ago (R-ADSL-C4W-EG, iirc).  
I suspect that Ian's might be the wireless-less version of the same  
device, or a later revision thereof (the '-2' at the end).

I have attempted to find source code for my Linux/Busybox-based  
dynamode device in the past, but it has proved impossible. I have  
carefully searched the UK and international dynamode web sites, and  
emailed their UK and international email addresses asking them to  
provide me with the source code, but did not find it, nor receive any  
satisfactory response to my emails. Dynamode is therefore clearly in  
violation of its obligation to provide source code. Also, there is no  
mention of the Linux, Busybox, or the GPL in any of the documentation  
which came with my device (they don't even make the written offer...).

I'm actually not using it any more (it has a couple of bugs, which I  
had hoped to fix, hence my request for the source code), and will  
happily post it to anyone in the UK who is interested in poking around  
to find out what GPL-licenced software is present on the device (at  
least Linux kernel and Busybox, but there may be other packages too),  
or wants to reflash it with open firmware, etc. (it's an AR7 based  
device, I think). It might even work for you, if you don't mind its  
broken reverse DNS implementation, which truncates host names at the  
first '-' character (I can't remember what the other bug was).