Deutsche Telekom W700V GPL violation

[Sebastian Gottschall]

Armijn Hemel schrieb:
> hi,
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>> 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
>>     
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> 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?
>   
no i havent contacted the Deutsche Telekom since there i dont know any 
responsible person for gpl issues in this very big company

i dont think its harsh if i say "likely" and "vendor" (the vendor is not 
Deutsche Telekom, its a OEM product. but however Deutsche Telekom is 
responsible for taking care about the GPL)
for reasons why this code is in it can just guess.
since the vendor of this firmware uses madwifi for controling the wifi 
interface it looks like he simply took the wireless controling sources
like Wireless Extensions and Wireless Tools, to configure the wifi 
interfaces. I can prove that the Wireless Extensions and parts of the 
Wireless tools are compiled into the firmware binary.
you may check it by yourself. i uploaded the extracted binary too 
http://www.dd-wrt.com/fw-sp-w700v-b-1_22_000.bin
and for the rest. how could it be that linux networking drivers drivers 
are used in a proprietary operating system without using core parts of 
linux?
you will find 2 linux drivers in it. for ethernet and wireless.

Sebastian Gottschall




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