Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965211AbVJEPSx (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:18:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965212AbVJEPSw (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:18:52 -0400 Received: from imag.imag.fr ([129.88.30.1]:15518 "EHLO imag.imag.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965211AbVJEPSw (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:18:52 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 17:18:46 +0200 From: Pierre Michon To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: freebox possible GPL violation Message-ID: <20051005151846.GA760@linux.ensimag.fr> Reply-To: 20051005121542.GA13284@snarc.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]); Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:18:47 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 864 Lines: 24 Hi, >The bottom line is the Freebox is still owned by Free when you are using >it. It you "buy" it (by not giving it back and paying 400 EUR), you >don't have the right anymore to plug it into free network, thus don't >have access to freebox's firmware. So how do you explain my point B ? Why does it need to reboot when there is a new firmware ? How they manage to download the firmware (need led driver, ppp, http, adsl driver, atm stack, ...) >but please keep that away from the LKML, this is *offtopic* here. >This list is about *developement* of the linux kernel.. Please suggest other mailling lists. Pierre - 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/