Freecom violates GPL

[Sascha Wüstemann]

Hi Jan,

I appreciate your work, thanks for your effort.

I haven't got any more mails from freecom support, nor have I mailed 
more mails to them. Just silence.

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 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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