LG violates gpl? take 2

[Kyoungae Kim]

Hello.  

I'm sorry that we've missed some object files which are complied separately. 
Also we don't distribute the object files that the toolchain libraries include. 
I redistributed object files again and you can download it. 

About two RELEASE files, that case can happen. 
The difference of creating time doesn't mean that the files are different. 
I don't think that I have responsibility to tell how we manage the firmware release. 

Thanks. 

Regards. 
K. Kim. 

On Mar 14, 2010, at 12:23 AM, Luca Olivetti wrote:

> En/na Luca Olivetti ha escrit:
> 
>>> We distributed the object files using our system. You can download the object files as the old ways. 
>> I got it, but there's no Makefile, so I cannot verify if, once linked with the supplied uclibc, will produce the same program as currently running on the tv, and, as with the kernel, it's very important that I can verify the supplied sources against what's currently running on the tv, you know, I don't want to turn my tv set into an expensive paperweight ;-)
> 
> Well, a simple string comparison suggests that the executable running in the tv cannot be obtained from the objects you sent me.
> First I obtained the strings in the running program
> 
> strings RELEASE | sort | uniq > ../strings.release
> 
> Then I did the same with all the objects you sent me
> 
> strings * | sort | uniq > ../strings.objects
> 
> Then I compared them with diff. Of course many differences are due to things stripped during the linking process, but there are various strings in the executables that are nowhere to be found in the objects, kernel sources, uClibc or nanox.
> 
> For example this block of text is only in RELEASE:
> 
> 
> +[A2SNK]
> +        [A2SNK] sbcCfg.bitpool=%02X
> +        [A2SNK] sbcCfg.bitpoolMin=%02X, bitpoolMax=%02X
> +        [A2SNK] sbcCfg.bitpoolMin=0x%02X, bitpoolMax=0x%02X
> +        [A2SNK] sbcCfg.nrofSubbands=%ld, sbcCfg.nrofBlocks=%d, sbcCfg.nrofChannels=%d
> +        [A2SNK] sbcCfg.sampleFreq=%ld, sbcCfg.channelMode=%d, sbcCfg.isSNR=%d
> +        A2SRC has been connected before !!
> +        A2SRC or A2SNK is already connected !!
> +        [A2SRC] sbcCfg.bitpoolMin=0x%02X, bitpoolMax=0x%02X
> +        [A2SRC] sbcCfg.nrofSubbands=%ld, sbcCfg.nrofBlocks=%d, sbcCfg.nrofChannels=%d
> +        [A2SRC] sbcCfg.sampleFreq=%ld, sbcCfg.channelMode=%d, sbcCfg.isSNR=%d
> 
> or this one
> 
> +active device is not exist in list
> 
> (sic)
> 
> 
> there are more but I got tired of sifting through 120000 differences.
> 
> Note that I did this with two different RELEASE files: one downloaded from the tv and the other from an epk file I found on the Internet.
> Surprisingly, even if they are different, they both are supposed to be firmware 3.20 (it seem they've been compiled 5 minutes apart from each other, I found this string "Sep  4 2009, 11:21:19" in the file downloaded from the Internet and this one "Sep  4 2009, 11:26:36" on my tv).
> 
> Could you explain the reason of what I found?
> 
> Thank you.
> -- 
> Luca