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| <h3>Hall of Shame!!!</h3> |
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| The following products and/or projects appear to use BusyBox, but do not appear |
| to release source code as required by the BusyBox license. This is a violation |
| of the law! The distributors of these products are invited to contact <a href= |
| "mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik Andersen</a> if they have any confusion as |
| to what is needed to bring their products into compliance, or if they have |
| already brought their product into compliance and wish to be removed from the |
| Hall of Shame. |
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| Here are the details of <a href="/license.html">exactly how to comply |
| with the BusyBox license</a>, so there should be no question as to |
| exactly what is expected. |
| Complying with the Busybox license is easy and completely free, so the |
| companies listed below should be ashamed of themselves. Furthermore, each |
| product listed here is subject to being legally ordered to cease and desist |
| distribution for violation of copyright law, and the distributor of each |
| product is subject to being sued for statutory copyright infringement damages |
| plus legal fees. Nobody wants to be sued, and <a |
| href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a> certainly has better things to do |
| than sue people. But he will sue if forced to do so to maintain compliance. |
| Do everyone a favor and don't break the law -- if you use busybox, comply with |
| the busybox license by releasing the source code with your product. |
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| <li><a href="http://www.acronis.com/products/partitionexpert/">Acronis PartitionExpert 2003</a> |
| <br>includes a heavily modified BusyBox v0.60.5 with no source |
| and no offer for source on their website. Some other Acronis |
| products have also been reported as being in violation. |
| <li><a href="http://www.macsense.com/product/homepod/">Macsense HomePod</a> |
| <br>with details |
| <a href="http://developer.gloolabs.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forums&file=viewtopic&topic=123&forum=7">here</a> |
| <li><a href="http://www.actiontec.com/products/broadband/54mbps_wireless_gateway_1p/index.html">ActionTec GT701-WG Wireless Gateway/DSL Modem</a> |
| <br>appears to be running BusyBox v0.61.pre, built Jan 09, 2004, but the accompanying |
| CD and documentation do not mention BusyBox, nor the GPL, and no source code is mentioned |
| or offered on their website. |
| <li><a href="http://www.cpx.com/products.asp?c=Wireless+Products">Compex Wireless Products</a> |
| <br>appears to be running v0.60.5 with Linux version 2.4.20-uc0 on ColdFire, |
| but no source code is mentioned or offered. |
| <li><a href="http://www.inventel.com/en/product/datasheet/10/">Inventel DW 200 wireless/ADSL router</a> |
| <li><a href="http://www.sweex.com/product.asp">Sweex DSL router</a> |
| <br>appears to be running BusyBox v1.00-pre2 and udhcpd, but no source |
| code is mentioned or offered. |
| <li><a href="http://www.trendware.com/products/TEW-410APB.htm">TRENDnet TEW-410APB</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.hauppauge.com/Pages/products/data_mediamvp.html">Hauppauge Media MVP</a> |
| <br>Hauppauge contacted me on 16 Dec 2003, and claims to be working on resolving this problem. |
| </li><li><a href="http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=201522&pcount=&Product_Id=136493">Belkin 54g Wireless DSL/Cable Gateway Router</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.usr.com/">U.S. Robotics Sureconnect 4-port ADSL router</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.hitex.com/download/adescom/data/">TriCore</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.allnet.de/">ALLNET 0186 wireless router</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.dmmtv.com/">Dreambox DM7000S DVB Satellite Receiver</a> |
| <br> Dream Multimedia contacted me on 22 Dec 2003 and is working on resolving this problem. |
| <br> Source _may_ be here: http://cvs.tuxbox.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tuxbox/cdk/ |
| </li><li><a href="http://testing.lkml.org/slashdot.php?mid=331690">Sigma Designs EM8500 based DVD players</a> |
| <br>Source for the Sigma Designs reference platform is found here<br> |
| <a href="http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/ports/arm/EM8500/uClinux-2.4-sigma.tar.gz">uClinux-2.4-sigma.tar.gz</a>, so while Sigma Designs itself appears to be in compliance, as far as I can tell, |
| no vendors of Sigma Designs EM8500 based devices actually comply with the GPL.... |
| </li><li><a href="http://testing.lkml.org/slashdot.php?mid=433790">Liteon LVD2001 DVD player using the Sigma Designs EM8500</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.rimax.net/">Rimax DVD players using the Sigma Designs EM8500</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.vinc.us/">Bravo DVD players using the Sigma Designs EM8500</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.hb-direct.com/">H&B DX3110 Divx player based on Sigma Designs EM8500</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.recospa.it/mdpro1/index.php">United *DVX4066 mpeg4 capable DVD players</a> |
| </li><li>Undoubtedly there are others... Please report them so we can shame them (or if necessary sue them) into compliance. |
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