BusyBox GPL violation?

[Denys Vlasenko]

Forwarded to gpl at busybox.net. This address is the recommended way to contact
the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations. 


On Sunday 11 January 2009 19:08, René Hanke wrote:
> 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