Twin GPL violation Neuf Telecom

Maël Lavault moimael at neuf.fr
Fri Jan 11 23:18:01 CET 2008


ouais moyen
Maël Lavault a écrit :
> Shane Martin Coughlan a écrit :
>> Hi Maël
>>
>> Maël Lavault wrote:
>>  
>>> I'm a French Twin GW2 (the GW1, GW3(linux 2.6.18 kernel) and tact(2.4
>>> kernel) version is concerned too) user (A Linux Kernel 2.6.10, Busybox,
>>> libblkid and Qtopia based phone) and i will to be able to modify the
>>> firmware. But Neuf Cegetel (the seller of this phone) don't give the
>>> source code.
>>> All versions of the firmware (compressed in sqashfs 3.0 file) :
>>> http://gw1download.neufbox.neuf.fr/
>>> The Twin :
>>> http://offres.neuf.fr/mobile/nos-mobiles/twin_classic.html
>>> http://www.wneweb.com/mobile/more/gw1.htm
>>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9996556326.html
>>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8358183983.html
>>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3547076080.html
>>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7480209721.html
>>> What must i do ?
>>>     
>>
>> Did your phone come with a written offer for the source code?  Did you
>> request the source code from the vendor?
>>
>> It would be useful to have a detailed report of (a) how you know Free
>> Software is used on the device, (b) if the device has a copy of the code
>> licences (like GPL) distributed with it, (c) if the device has a written
>> offer for source code and (d) if you have asked the company for 
>> source code.
>>
>> You could send the report to ftf at fsfeurope.org or to this list and we
>> will queue it for investigation.
>>
>> Shane
>>
>>   
> I have (and i'm not alone) requested the source code on official forum 
> from N9uf cegetel, but no acceptable response. I have find an other 
> gpl violation from n9uf cegetel. For the Twin S710 based on the HTC 
> S710 they used an modified version of TCPMP but do not share the 
> source code and it's the same case with the N9uf Talk software a GPL 
> software. I have unsquashed the firmware from the device, so i know 
> that GPL software are used. And it's written in the contract license 
> from the Twin.
>
> Ask for the Twin source code
> http://forum.neufmobile.fr/viewtopic.php?t=2468&highlight=source
>
> Ask from the N9uf Talk source code :
> http://forum.neuftalk.com/viewtopic.php?t=1744
>
>






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