BusyBox GPL violation?

René Hanke hanker at rpg-domain.de
Sun Jan 11 18:08:36 UTC 2009


Hi!

I didn't really know where to post it, so I wrote this to vda.linux at googlemail.com and here:

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Hello and greetings from Germany!

I just buyed a Emtec Q800 media player/recorder and realized that its firmware is using your 
great BusyBox.

Since I and some other users would like to modify the player a little bit (adding features), we 
asked Emtec, where we could download the sourcecode which must be available as far as I 
understand the GPL.

Emtec told us, that they didn't have any sources but Mele (www.mele.cn), the "real" producer 
of the hard- and software. We tried to contact Mele multiple times, but got no response.

Currently we know that *every* Emtec Media-Player uses BusyBox, but *no* sourcecode is 
available. At least *some* players from Fantec (www.fantec.de) and Evertech use it, too. All 
seem to use Mele Hardware.

We thought it would be interesting for you to know the many violations of the GPL. Perhaps 
*you* can do something about it.


Best regards (and please excuse my bad english)

René

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