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This is a violation of the law! +The distributors of these products are invited to contact <a href= +"mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik Andersen</a> if they have any confusion +as to what is needed to bring their products into compliance, or if they have +already brought their product into compliance and wish to be removed from the +Hall of Shame. + +<p> + +Here are the details of <a href="/license.html">exactly how to comply +with the BusyBox license</a>, so there should be no question as to +exactly what is expected. +Complying with the Busybox license is easy and completely free, so the +companies listed below should be ashamed of themselves. Furthermore, each +product listed here is subject to being legally ordered to cease and desist +distribution for violation of copyright law, and the distributor of each +product is subject to being sued for statutory copyright infringement damages +of up to $150,000 per work plus legal fees. Nobody wants to be sued, and <a +href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a> certainly would prefer to spend +his time doing better things than sue people. But he will sue if forced to +do so to maintain compliance. + +<p> + +Do everyone a favor and don't break the law -- if you use busybox, comply with +the busybox license by releasing the source code with your product. + +<p> + +<ul> + + <li><a href="http://www.trittontechnologies.com/products.html">Tritton Technologies NAS120</a> + <br>see <a href="http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.0/1611.html">here for details</a> + <li><a href="http://www.macsense.com/product/homepod/">Macsense HomePod</a> + <br>with details + <a href="http://developer.gloolabs.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forums&file=viewtopic&topic=123&forum=7">here</a> + <li><a href="http://www.cpx.com/products.asp?c=Wireless+Products">Compex Wireless Products</a> + <br>appears to be running v0.60.5 with Linux version 2.4.20-uc0 on ColdFire, + but no source code is mentioned or offered. + <li><a href="http://www.inventel.com/en/product/datasheet/10/">Inventel DW 200 wireless/ADSL router</a> + <li><a href="http://www.sweex.com/product.asp">Sweex DSL router</a> + <br>appears to be running BusyBox v1.00-pre2 and udhcpd, but no source + code is mentioned or offered. + <li><a href="http://www.trendware.com/products/TEW-410APB.htm">TRENDnet TEW-410APB</a> + </li><li><a href="http://www.hauppauge.com/Pages/products/data_mediamvp.html">Hauppauge Media MVP</a> + <br>Hauppauge contacted me on 16 Dec 2003, and claims to be working on resolving this problem. + </li><li><a href="http://www.hitex.com/download/adescom/data/">TriCore</a> + </li><li><a href="http://www.allnet.de/">ALLNET 0186 wireless router</a> + </li><li><a href="http://www.dmmtv.com/">Dreambox DM7000S DVB Satellite Receiver</a> + <br> Dream Multimedia contacted me on 22 Dec 2003 and is working on resolving this problem. + <br> Source _may_ be here: http://cvs.tuxbox.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tuxbox/cdk/ + </li><li><a href="http://testing.lkml.org/slashdot.php?mid=331690">Sigma Designs EM8500 based DVD players</a> + <br>Source for the Sigma Designs reference platform is found here<br> + <a href="http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/ports/arm/EM8500/uClinux-2.4-sigma.tar.gz">uClinux-2.4-sigma.tar.gz</a>, so while Sigma Designs itself appears to be in compliance, as far as I can tell, + no vendors of Sigma Designs EM8500 based devices actually comply with the GPL.... + </li><li><a href="http://testing.lkml.org/slashdot.php?mid=433790">Liteon LVD2001 DVD player using the Sigma Designs EM8500</a> + </li><li><a href="http://www.rimax.net/">Rimax DVD players using the Sigma Designs EM8500</a> + </li><li><a href="http://www.vinc.us/">Bravo DVD players using the Sigma Designs EM8500</a> + </li><li><a href="http://www.hb-direct.com/">H&B DX3110 Divx player based on Sigma Designs EM8500</a> + </li><li><a href="http://www.recospa.it/mdpro1/index.php">United *DVX4066 mpeg4 capable DVD players</a> + </li><li><a href="http://www.a-link.com/RR64AP.html">Avaks alink Roadrunner 64</a> + <br> Partial source available, based on source distributed under NDA from <a href="http://www.lsilogic.com/products/dsl_platform_solutions/hb_linuxr2_2.html"> LSILogic</a>. Why the NDA LSILogic, what are you hiding ? + <br>To verify the Avaks infrigment see my slashdot <a href="http://slashdot.org/~bug1/journal/">journal</a>. + <br>The ZipIt wireless IM device appears to be using Busybox-1.00-pre1 in the ramdisk, however no source has been made available. + </li><li>Undoubtedly there are others... Please report them so we can shame them (or if necessary sue them) into compliance. + +</ul> + + +<!--#include file="footer.html" --> + |