Hi,

the Renault R-Link system 
(http://www.renault.com/en/pages/legalinformation.aspx) is a 
navigation/entertainment solution installed in many newer Renault cars. It is 
original developed by TomTom (www.tomtom.com) but distributed by Renault. The 
System is based on Android 2.2 and runs a linux kernel. I haven't analysed the 
bootloader yet, but other tomtom products use uboot.

You can download  a copy of their filesystem from 
http://download.tomtom.com/sweet/navcore/system-update_1467818_all.ttpkg which 
can be converted to a regular tar archive by this small bash script (you need 
a recent dd version for this)

#!/bin/bash

while :; do
   dd conv=notrunc bs=102400 iflag=skip_bytes,fullblock \
       oflag=append skip=20 count=1 2>&1 >&3 | grep 0+1 && break
done < <(tail -c +9 system-update_1467818_all.ttpkg) 3>&1 | tail -c +55 > 
system-update_1467818_all.tar

I ask tomtom first because the "copyright" app shows an offer by tomtom to 
deliver the source, but they said that Renault is responsible (which is ok I 
think because they distribute it).

So I ask Renault Deutschland (where I got the car from) and they refused 
saying they can't do it. Translated response:

"Dear Mr. Dietrich,

after internal review of your request we can tell you that we as Renault 
Deutschland AG can't help you, that means we can neither correct the license 
text, nor we can supply the source code."

[...]

   Renault Deutschland AG

[...]
"

I wrote a letter to the FSF explaining the situation and I'm waiting now for 
an answer. Is there anything more I can do?


Regards,

Marc


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