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?
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>>> Have you contacted Deutsche Telekom about this? Have you contacted the
>>> copyright owners to verify?
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>> no i havent contacted the Deutsche Telekom since there i dont know any 
>> responsible person for gpl issues in this very big company
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> And you saw no other way than going public instead of, say, trying to
> contact Deutsche Telekom.
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have you ever tried to talk with Deutsche Telekom? you will just end up 
in a callcenter
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>> 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.
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> You said "also [...] stolen". You know what they call that? Libel.
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it may, if i would be wrong.
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>> you will find 2 linux drivers in it. for ethernet and wireless.
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> 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.
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trust me. i'm really really sure what i'm saying. i just sayed what i 
saw and what can be easily verified by another party
and before going to public i always show this to other people first to 
get theire opinion
but i understand your critics. you may censor any words if you think 
that they arent good for the public on your list
> 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?
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okay

Sebastian