LG violates gpl? take 2

[Luca Olivetti]

En/na Luca Olivetti ha escrit:
> En/na Kees Bakker ha escrit:
> 
>>
>> You have to make smaller steps first. Do the diff on the strings
>> output. Tell us if they are different. If they're not different,
>> the next step is to do a disassemble (which needs a lot of fine
>> tuning) and do a diff on that.
> 
> Following Joseph's advice, I put the sources in the same exact location, 
> and after that, diffing the strings, apart from the various binary 
> differences, there's at least a real string that's present in my kernel 
> but it's not in the tv:
> 
> "USB2.0 Card Reader"
> 
> Can I now positively say that I've not been provided the same kernel as 
> the one running on the tv?

And, according to a note in the source, that string was added by "Colin" 
(I suppose he's an LG employee since there's no such string in the 
corresponding file of the mainline kernel) on the 17th of September 
2009, while the kernel was compiled on September 4:

/*Colin, 090917, for mini-SD Card Reader, wrong residual*/
UNUSUAL_DEV(  0x090c, 0x6000, 0x0000, 0x9999,
                 "Generic",
                 "USB2.0 Card Reader",
                 US_SC_SCSI, US_PR_BULK, NULL,
                 US_FL_IGNORE_RESIDUE ),


Linux version 2.6.26 (charism at swfarm-l7) (gcc version 3.4.3 (MontaVista 
3.4.3-25.0.70.0501961 2005-12-18)) #108 PREEMPT Fri Sep 4 11:15:36 KST 2009

Bye
-- 
Luca