Possible GPL violation by Acronis Inc.

[Anton Hofmann]

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Hello all,

some days ago i found a imaging backup solution from Acronis Inc. (www.acronis.com) which includes a
special rescue system to boot from a CD, Acronis TrueImage (Home/Netbook/Workstation...what ever..).
I've never used that rescue system until 6 weeks ago.

The Rescue System uses busybox v1.13.4 (as given in the console) with dhclient, samba-client and
some other stuff...
I checked the supplied documentation and the wrapping of that product but i cant find any hints
regarding the GPL/LGPL so i've examined there homepage and i found this licensing part:

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Licensing information

Acronis has the following GPL/LGPL sources used in our products:

    * Linux software (used on the rescue media); the GPL license.
    * Fox (a graphical library, used in all our products); the LGPL license.
    * "Mouse" driver (a DOS driver used by Acronis OS Selector); the GPL license.
    * UPX (The Ultimate Packer for eXecutables); the UPX License Agreement.

If you want to receive the appropriate source code for the software listed above, please submit a
request to Acronis Technical Support.
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http://www.acronis.com/support/licensing/

This licensing info is also pretty good hidden, i just found it via the search term GPL in the
search window.

So i contacted the support via there request system last month to obtain these sources, but i didn't
get any answer so far.

1. As far as i know a copy of the gpl must be shipped with the product, but thats definitely not the
case here.
2. I dont know if its legitimate to put the whole kernel stuff, busybox, the dhcp and samba parts
just under the licensing-term "Linux software".
3. I dont have direct access to those sources, it depends on the willingness of the support-worker
whether i'll get those or not, and at the moment i'm waiting about 4 weeks to get an answer.

Can someone advise me what i should do next?

Regards

Anton
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