Tekram AP100, another Access Point GPL violation

Martin Langer martin-langer at gmx.de
Thu Dec 15 20:18:36 CET 2005


Hi,

since years I have an Access Point from Tekram. It's an AP100.
Today I was looking into the firmware available at
http://www.tekram.de/download/wlan/ap10x_25.zip

And there is a Motorola S-Record image inside. If you try the 
file command you can get this information:
/tmp/ap10x_25.img: Motorola S-Record; binary data in text format

Ok, I got srecord from http://srecord.sourceforge.net/ and convert it 
into binary format...
srec_cat -Output -Binary /tmp/ap10x_25.img > ap10x_25.bin

Then just for fun I did:
strings ap10x_25.bin | grep "Linux"

... and I got that output:
Linux/PPC load:
Uncompressing Linux...

So, they run Linux on this Motorola PC850 CPU. That's interesting.
Unfortunately I haven't found any GPL note, nor any license, nor any 
sources. If someone is able to get the sources, please drop a note. I 
just want to fix some bugs ;) 

Big Thanks for offering gpl-violations.org!

martin



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