New submission from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]>:
folks, hi, kenney is still at it: he's tracked down another ARM manufacturer who have at least one tablet retail outlet and, importantly, have a U.S. GPL-violating distributor (http://www.zenithink.us). his research shows that they are GPL violators of at least glibc, which puts this firmly into the FSF's ability to issue a cease and desist order, and also busybox. also they have demonstrated blatant disregard for GPL source code requests. this is a pity because their CPU is actually extremely good: a low-cost embedded ARM processor. however it makes it all the more important to go after them because of their vendor lock-in and blatant disregard for copyright. l. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kenney Phillis <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:35 PM Subject: Setting up a GPL Request for companies in China? To: [email protected] There's a lot of companies in China which are producing tablets with gnu source. One of the companies that i know of is Zenithink. I'm wondering what the best choice is to go about making the gpl source request is for this. I already have a list of gpl components, besides the linux kernel found... the list is as follows: uboot, glibc, busybox, realtek (gpl), vivante graphics (gpl), and Marvell (gpl), ffmpeg (lgpl) All of these elements where found by using the strings command on the images used to flash a client update, and using grep on the output. strings u-boot.img | grep U\-Boot -a4 U-Boot 2009.08 (Sep 01 2010 - 14:30:16) for android 1008MHz ddr126 256M 4L fast strings system.img | grep license\=GPL -a4 This is what revealed: Marvell International Ltd. ( M-WLAN Driver ) Sololz of InfoTM (gpl driver, don't know what tho) Vivante Graphics Driver (GPL driver) realtek wireless driver (multiple samples) strings system.img | grep BusyBox -i -a4 syslogd started: BusyBox v1.15.2 fsck (busybox 1.15.2, 2010-03-18 15:36:31 CST) strings system.img | grep \(c\) -i -a4| grep -i busybox -a4 -i Copyright (C) 1998-2008 Erik Andersen, Rob Landley, Denys Vlasenko and others. Licensed under GPLv2. See source distribution for full notice. Usage: busybox [function] [arguments]... or: function [arguments]... strings system.img | grep gnu\.org TLS generation counter wrapped! Please report as described in <http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html>. strings system.img | grep glibc -i This revealed the following, which is nice to know of... *** glibc detected *** %s: %s: 0x%s *** glibc 2.9 GLIBC_PRIVATE glibc-ld.so.cache1.1 GLIBC_2.4 They have an us distributor... http://zenithink.us/index.php and here's the company site: http://www.zenithink.com/en/ and lastly, they have prior knowledge of this, and they keep ignoring gpl requests: http://www.slatedroid.com/zt-180/7364-open-letter-zenithink.html ---------- messages: 12491 priority: normal status: new substatus: new title: ffmpeg GPL violation by zenithink type: bug ________________________________________________ FFmpeg issue tracker <[email protected]> <https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue2347> ________________________________________________
