GPL violation by Olympia Business Systems Vertriebs GmbH
Stefan Altenkamp
stefan.altenkamp at lycos.de
Mon Jul 21 12:26:57 CEST 2008
Dear all,
the german based company Olymia ( www.olympia-vertrieb.de) sells a nice
internet radio Webradio 300.
I checked into one of the latest firmware updates and found :
hexdump -C OLYMPIA_R-1.0.3.51.upg
00126150 6e 65 6c 2e 00 4c 69 6e 75 78 20 76 65 72 73 69 |nel..Linux
versi|
00126160 6f 6e 20 32 2e 34 2e 32 30 2d 75 63 30 20 28 72 |on
2.4.20-uc0 (r|
00126170 6f 6f 74 40 43 6f 6d 70 69 6c 65 53 65 72 76 65
|oot at CompileServe|
00126180 72 29 20 28 67 63 63 20 76 65 72 73 69 6f 6e 20 |r) (gcc
version |
00126190 32 2e 39 35 2e 33 20 32 30 30 31 30 33 31 35 20 |2.95.3
20010315 |
001261a0 28 72 65 6c 65 61 73 65 29 28 43 6f 6c 64 46 69
|(release)(ColdFi|
001261b0 72 65 20 70 61 74 63 68 65 73 20 2d 20 32 30 30 |re patches
- 200|
001261c0 31 30 33 31 38 20 66 72 6f 6d 20 68 74 74 70 3a |10318 from
http:|
001261d0 2f 2f 66 69 64 64 65 73 2e 6e 65 74 2f 63 6f 6c
|//fiddes.net/col|
001261e0 64 66 69 72 65 2f 29 28 75 43 6c 69 6e 75 78 20
|dfire/)(uClinux |
001261f0 58 49 50 20 61 6e 64 20 73 68 61 72 65 64 20 6c |XIP and
shared l|
00126200 69 62 20 70 61 74 63 68 65 73 20 66 72 6f 6d 20 |ib patches
from |
00126210 68 74 74 70 3a 2f 2f 77 77 77 2e 73 6e 61 70 67
|http://www.snapg|
00126220 65 61 72 2e 63 6f 6d 2f 29 29 20 23 37 30 38 31 |ear.com/))
#7081|
So this is evidence for me, that they use the Linux kernel.
On their homepage I cannot find any information about them using GPL
licensed software, nor any source code.
I have contacted them and asked for the source code.
Regards
Stefan Altenkamp
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