<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Resent, because for some reason the previous attempt it was going to <a href="mailto:legal@narasimha.gpl-violations.org">legal@narasimha.gpl-violations.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Maurus wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I'm a developer at the Rockbox project and we're currently trying to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">port a Aigo e235 (aka Reddmango Angora VX435).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">As this particular device uses µClinux sources (and probably others),<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">we would like to complaint about this hoping we could get some source<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">code released.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">In the firmware there is definitely some proof of µClinux + some<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">mentioning of the Sigma SDK.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">As the Aigo is a Chinese company, I think we should focus on Sigma for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">releasing (some of) the source code, as these Chinese companies tend<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to not respond and cooperate.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">A link to the firmware can be found at [1] and a picture of the VX435 at [2].<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">There were some earlier attempts to get some source code from Sigma<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(see [3] and [4]), but these ended in nothing as the busybox sources<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">needed by the author of these mails were provided by the µClinux<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sources.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I hope this will lead to something and that the constant GPL<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">violations by these OEM manufacturers get stopped.<br></blockquote><br>I wish that were true. But until today even KiSS (the company that is considered<br>"one of the better behaved OEMs") does not make the source code available of<br>their latest firmware. They do not respond to email requests, nor does Linksys (who<br>owns KiSS nowadays). I get the impression they deliberately put up an old version<br>of the source code on their website and for rest they simply act dumb, and now<br>nobody cares anymore. For them problem solved, and for me pure frustration.<br><br>Nevertheless, there is always hope. I wish you all the best, and I hope you<br>succeed.<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thank you.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">[1] - <a href="http://gazr88.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/20020061114V957SL_AIGO_EN_PAL(1C0F10FB).bin">http://gazr88.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/20020061114V957SL_AIGO_EN_PAL(1C0F10FB).bin</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">[2] - <a href="http://gazr88.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/DSC00047.JPG">http://gazr88.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/DSC00047.JPG</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">[3] - <a href="http://lists.gpl-violations.org/pipermail/legal/2007-February/001007.html">http://lists.gpl-violations.org/pipermail/legal/2007-February/001007.html</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">[4] - <a href="http://lists.gpl-violations.org/pipermail/legal/2005-March/000035.html">http://lists.gpl-violations.org/pipermail/legal/2005-March/000035.html</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Mvg,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cuelenaere Maurus</blockquote></div></div></body></html>