Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:13:29 +0200 | | From | Pierre Michon <> | | Subject | Re: freebox possible GPL violation |
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Hi,
>I'm sorry, I must be a bit stupid but I don't see any GPL violation >here... Could you be a bit more specific on what kind of code, Free is >keeping under his foot ? Sorry I realise that my first post wasn't clear.
The fimware that is used with the freebox is a Linux system. So in the firmware there is the GPL Linux kernel and all the GPL software listed on [1] (busybox for example).
Users can't download nor binary firmware nor source code of GPL software.
The binary firmware is downloaded by the freebox when a new version is available. This is done on an unknow server with an unknow protocol.
So free keep the Linux kernel modification they have made. You could see some of the log of their modification on [2] and [3]. They also don't provide the source for the GPL userspace software they include in the firmware.
Pierre
[1] http://www.f-b-x.net/#firm [2] http://openlogging.org:8080/sakura.(none)/max-20040524220224-60268-baea416b9b2da5c2/src?nav=index.html [3] http://openlogging.org:8080/chewbacca.proxad.net/rani-20040112173203-20972-c609c93690b2941a/src?nav=index.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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