Deutsche Telekom W700V GPL violation

Armijn Hemel armijn at uulug.nl
Wed Jun 18 23:40:13 CEST 2008


hi,

> which shows that the linux wireless tools are compiled in
> additionally the vendor ported madwifi to his own operating system and 
> included the wireless extension interface which is part of the linux 
> kernel.
> this can be proved with other text patterns too
> since the firmware uses slot of linux based drivers (non gpl drivers 
> like madwifi and others), its also very likelly that other parts of the 
> linux kernel are stolen
> to build up this non gpl'ed operating system

Those are very harsh accusations and if I were you, I'd take them back,
publicly. Do you know why this code is in there?

Have you contacted Deutsche Telekom about this? Have you contacted the
copyright owners to verify?

armijn

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