Hi,

i am Johannes Storm and this is a letter about a possible GPL-violation by
Freecom Technology GmbH. I have to wrote the letter because Freecom don't
publish the code of the current firmware versions for some of their products.
This firmware runs on Freecom Storage Gateway (FSG3), Datatank (DT2) and Network
Drive Pro (VT4) and consists almost entirely of free software.

The first version with unpublished code is 4.4.2 from Febuary 13th 2008. There
are alot requests to Freecom about the code by email, phone and in the official
forum:
- http://www.freecomforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9710
- http://www.freecomforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16569
- http://www.openfsg.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7618
and not least, this letter.

The support of Freecom always say that they forward the requests and the code
will be published soon, but nothing happens since over a year.
We also know from Freecom support that there is no active development anymore
on this firmware.
But because there is a active community, which develop and support themselves,
it is necessary to get the newest code for futher working on a Community Release
(http://www.openfsg.com/index.php/FSG-3_Community_Release).

This letter is to ask Freecom to publish the code and continue to do so
promptly in all subsequent versions too.
Futhermore i call on the copyright holders of the affected software to
enforce their rights.

Thank you very much
Johannes Storm



The following list shows parts of the inluded OpenSource Software and some
infomations:
- gpl-violation.txt



This open letter will be published to Freecom, Free Software Foundation and
the copyright holders or maintainers of the included open source software:

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[Products:] 
- Storage Gateway (FSG3)
- Datatank (DT2)
- Network Drive Pro (VT4)

[Organisation:]
Freecom Technologies GmbH
Sachsendamm 3-4
10829 Berlin
Deutschland

Geschäftsführer:
Claus Bunge, Dick Hoogerdijk

Handelsregister Berlin HRB 52447
Ust-IdNr.: DE165893753
WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE 72417230

[email protected]
+49-(0)2102-7700-0

[Software:]
All current firmware versions of these products (This is one firmware,
which can be compiled for this devices) are published without the sources.
The last available sources are for version: 4.3.8 
(http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/nslu2/sources/fcsnap-4.3.8-gpl.tar.bz2)
Missing source for versions: 4.4.2, 4.4.5, 4.4.8, 4.5.0.8

The firmware contents on following OpenSource software (firmware 4.3.8):
SnapGear Linux                                                                  
        GPLv2                           www.snapgear.org
uClinux-dist/Documentation/LIESMICH                     GPL                     
        Heiko Degenhardt ([email protected])
libg/gtermcap                                                                   
        GPLv2                           Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1993, 2002 
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
apache_1.3.33                                                                   
        Apache License  http://www.apache.org
bridge-utils                                                                    
        GPLv2                           Lennert Buytenhek <[email protected]>
busybox                                                                         
                GPLv2                           http://www.busybox.net/
cpu.c                                                                           
                        GPLv2                           Copyright 2000, Greg 
Ungerer ([email protected])
ctorrent-dnh2.2                                                                 
GPLv2                           YuHong [email protected]
dhcpcd                                                                          
                GPLv2                           Copyright (C) 1996 - 1997 
Yoichi Hariguchi <[email protected]>
                                                                                
                                                                        
Copyright (C) January, 1998 Sergei Viznyuk <[email protected]>
dnsmasq-2.22                                                                    
        GPLv2                           2000-2005 Simon Kelley 
[email protected]
dosfsck                                                                         
                GPLv2                           Werner Almesberger 
<[email protected]>
                                                                                
                                                                        Roman 
Hodek <[email protected]>
mkdosfs                                                                         
                GPLv2                           Dave Hudson 
[email protected]
dtdnsupdate                                                                     
                GPLv2                           2002 Christopher Trahan 
[email protected]
ez-ipupdate-3.0.11b8                                                            
GPLv2                           http://www.ez-ip.net Copyright (C) 1998-2001 
Angus Mackay
fetchmail-6.2.5                                                                 
GPLv2                           2002 by Eric S. Raymond 
[email protected]
fuse-2.6.1                                                                      
                GPLv2                           Miklos Szeredi     
<[email protected]>
hd.c                                                                            
                        GPLv2                           Copyright 2000-2001, 
Greg Ungerer ([email protected])
init/expand.c                                                                   
        GPLv2                           Copyright (C) 1998  Kenneth Albanowski 
<[email protected]>,
                                                                                
                                                                        D. Jeff 
Dionne <[email protected]>
ipkg-0.99.163                                                                   
        GPLv2                           Carl Worth <[email protected]> and 
Steve
                                                                                
                                                                        Ayer 
<[email protected]>
iptables                                                                        
                        GPLv2                           (C) 2000-2002 by the 
netfilter coreteam <[email protected]>
mdadm-2.5.6                                                                     
                GPLv2                           Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Neil 
Brown <[email protected]>
mysql-4.1.16                                                                    
        GPLv2                           http://www.mysql.com
noflushd                                                                        
                        GPLv2                           Daniel Kobras 
<[email protected]>
noip-2.1.1                                                                      
                GPLv2                           Copyright 2000-2004 Free 
Software Foundation, Inc.
ntfs-3g-1.417                                                                   
        GPLv2                           www.ntfs-3g.org 
[email protected]
p910nd-0.7                                                                      
                GPL                             Ken Yap 
([email protected]), April 2001
phpMyAdmin-2.7.0-pl2                                                            
GPLv2                           1998-2000 Tobias Ratschiller 
<[email protected]>
ppp-2.4.3                                                                       
                GPL                             
http://sourceforge.net/projects/poptop/ [email protected]
pptp-client                                                                     
                GPLv2                           Scott Ananian 
<[email protected]>
pptpd-1.3.0                                                                     
                GPLv2                           James Cameron 
<[email protected]>
reiserfsprogs                                                                   
        GPLv2                           [email protected]
samba-3.0.23d                                                                   
        GPLv2                           Derrell Lipman <[email protected]>
squid-2.6.STABLE2                                                               
        GPLv2                           (C) 2001 by the Regents of the 
University of California
                                                                                
                                                                        
[email protected]
OpenSSH                                                                         
                BSD                             (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen 
<[email protected]>
vsftpd-2.0.5.ext2                                                               
        GPLv2                           (c) Chris Evans [email protected]
wireless_tools.28                                                               
        GPLv2                           (c) 1997-2006 Jean Tourrilhes 
<[email protected]>
web-interface (./user/freecom/cgi/*)      GPLv2          Freecom Technology 
GmbH, Berlin, 2004
hostapd-0.3.9                                                                   
        GPLv2                           (c) 2002-2005, Jouni Malinen 
<[email protected]>
knox                                                                            
                        GPLv2                           Freecom Technology 
GmbH, Berlin, 2004
802.1X                                                                          
                GPLv2                           (c) 2002-2003, Jouni Malinen 
<[email protected]>

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