Freecom violates GPL

[smirnoff onice]

Just mailed the BusuBox people, have yet to receive answer, when they do I will post it
 
thanks
 
BTW the European Parliament better things to do than....? moving each month from Strassbourgh to Brussels? Talk about waste of time and money ;)> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 00:43:05 +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; sascha at killerhippy.de> Subject: Re: Freecom violates GPL> > 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> >>> > > > _________________________________________________________________> > Jouw nieuws en entertainment, vind je op MSN.nl!> > http://nl.msn.com/> > 
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