tevion multimedia network hdd500gb/chiligreen mr1/emtec movie cubes

[da schölla]

hi,

two weeks ago i bought a "tevion multimedia network hdd 500gb" at "hofer
"a discount chain in austria. "tevion" is a trademark of "gericom ag"
and the network hdd is the same as the box sold by "chilligreen" as
"media recorder" and its basically the same (other case) as the "emtec
moviecube r100". and there are some other clones too.

as a matter of facts one can access it by telnet and there one gets
"BusyBox v1.1.3 (2008.03.14-01:17+0000) Built-in shell (ash)"

i also checked the documentation (the printed and the pdf version on the
cd) there is no hint for gpl software. i also mailed to the support
asking for advice both because the installed firmware did not provide
all the functions explained by the documentation and where one can get
the source code of the firmware. the first issue was addressed in their
answer by providing a link to a sw update. the license issue is still
unanswered.

"aldi" the german branch of the retai chain already violated the gpl by
selling a notbook from "medion" with a preinstalled mini linux
(http://gpl-violations.org/news/20050430-medion-aldi-notebook.html)

lg
christoph
ps: i also checked the online version of the chiligreen doku for the
"MR1" there is also no hint of gpl.