Deutsche Telekom W700V GPL violation

[Armijn Hemel]

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

And you saw no other way than going public instead of, say, trying to
contact Deutsche Telekom.

> 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.

You said "also [...] stolen". You know what they call that? Libel.

> you will find 2 linux drivers in it. for ethernet and wireless.

I'm not questioning your technical analysis, just your method of
'disclosure'. You see, things like these will keep showing up in search
engines for many many years to come. If you start accusing a person or
company of breaching copyright *in public*, you'd better be really
*REALLY* sure of what you're saying.

Now, let's work on finding a contact with Deutsche Telekom and resolve
this thing. In the meantime, I'm asking you to refrain from making any
statements about theft and breaching copyrights, OK?

armijn

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