Forwarded to [email protected]. 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 > [email protected] and here: > > - - - - - - - - - > > 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 _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
