Twin GPL violation Neuf Telecom

[Shane Martin Coughlan]

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

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