Deutsche Telekom W700V GPL violation [resent]

[Felix Fietkau]

(previous mail got rejected, resent from a different address)

Hi again,

ard wrote:
> Well, much of the PCI messages that I found in the unpacked
> binary seems to be mips/amazon initialization code. (Which you
> can find in the openwrt svn tree ;-) ).
> This indeed seems to be a violation of the GPL.
> 
> I haven't done anything more than string -a the binary :-).
> However, the string -a leads me to believe that specific
> mips/amazon pci initialisation code is used, which probably is
> derived from a standard linux pci initialisation code , and
> therefore should be GPL. That alone justifies calling it a
> violation, although I think that it needs more technical
> disection/proof than just strings -a. (Like: the assembly code
> will probably contain enough hints to certain loops and such).
The strings that I pasted were not from the amazon arch pci code, they were
from drivers/pci/pci.c
Sure, if you want to follow up on this, then you should look at the
assembly code. But the chances of those specific strings appearing in the
binary without any of the code around them are very close to zero.

- Felix