Freecom violates GPL

[Jan Kiszka]

Hi all,

[I added Sascha to CC as he once reported to have had contact with 
Freecom. Any news from that side?]

smirnoff onice wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> wasn't aware that it had BusyBox, I assume the MediaPlayer also has one

Most smaller embedded Linux devices have, but check first by scanning 
the firmware for suspicious strings (the MusicPal FW contains, among 
other evidences, all that ../bin/busybox links to the main binary).

> 
> I will look into it some more
> 
> Posted something on the official Freecom support forum
> http://forum.freecompromo.com/viewtopic.php?t=3441

That won't help, others and also /me tried that medium earlier. I think 
now it takes affected copyright holders (*) to trigger their lawyers. 
Will you inform the busybox guys and keep us up-to-date about the outcome?

Jan

(*) Please leave the European Parliament out of this, they already have 
enough other important issues to address. ;)

> 
>> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:15:10 +0100
>> From: jan.kiszka at web.de
>> To: zddog_nl at hotmail.com
>> CC: ralph at inputplus.co.uk; legal at lists.gpl-violations.org
>> Subject: Re: Freecom violates GPL
>>
>> smirnoff onice wrote:
>>> Hi Ralph
>>>
>>> I will make it my next to-do thing
>>>
>>> thanks for your advice
>>>  
>>>> To: lex1 at sisal.cc
>>>> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:00:11 +0000
>>>> From: ralph at inputplus.co.uk
>>>> CC: legal at lists.gpl-violations.org
>>>> Subject: Re: Freecom violates GPL
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi zdDog,
>>>>
>>>>> Freecom turns a deaf ear towards users mailing them to release the
>>>>> source code, there has been one release of earlier firmware for the
>>>>> FSG, that's it.  A Few expert users want to try to develop these
>>>>> machines further, but have yet to receive an answer after months of
>>>>> e-mails.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any advice how to proceed further?
>>>> Report it to the FSFE's Freedom Task Force?
>>>>
>>>>     http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/ftf/ftf.en.html
>> Just to add another option: BusyBox (at least part of Musicpal's FW) -> 
>> Software Freedom Law Center, see http://busybox.net/license.html.
>>
>> Jan
>>
> 
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