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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