Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965107AbVJELYa (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 07:24:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932632AbVJELYa (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 07:24:30 -0400 Received: from smtp.cs.aau.dk ([130.225.194.6]:36028 "EHLO smtp.cs.aau.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932624AbVJELY3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 07:24:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4343B779.8030200@cs.aau.dk> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:22:33 +0200 From: Emmanuel Fleury User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051001) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: freebox possible GPL violation References: <20051005111329.GA31087@linux.ensimag.fr> In-Reply-To: <20051005111329.GA31087@linux.ensimag.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1444 Lines: 43 Hi, Ok, I think this is cristal clear to me, now. :) Pierre Michon wrote: > > 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. Your task will be to prove that the kernel they upload to your box is a modified Linux kernel (by "modified Linux kernel", I mean no modules but the kernel itself). So, the first step would be to catch/sniff this binary image, then analyze it. But, as long as you cannot prove that Free has done internal modifications to the Linux kernel which are not released in any way, your case is quite thin. Regards -- Emmanuel Fleury Don't speculate - benchmark. -- Dan Bernstein - 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/