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4<h3>Hall of Shame!!!</h3>
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Eric Andersena0834552004-04-12 15:23:19 +00006The following products and/or projects appear to use BusyBox, but do not
7appear to release source code as required by the <a
8href="/license.html">BusyBox license</a>. This is a violation of the law!
9The distributors of these products are invited to contact <a href=
10"mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik Andersen</a> if they have any confusion
11as to what is needed to bring their products into compliance, or if they have
Eric Andersen539eef62003-12-10 12:08:20 +000012already brought their product into compliance and wish to be removed from the
13Hall of Shame.
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Eric Andersen8f3eb1d2004-01-02 09:08:45 +000017Here are the details of <a href="/license.html">exactly how to comply
18with the BusyBox license</a>, so there should be no question as to
19exactly what is expected.
Eric Andersen539eef62003-12-10 12:08:20 +000020Complying with the Busybox license is easy and completely free, so the
21companies listed below should be ashamed of themselves. Furthermore, each
22product listed here is subject to being legally ordered to cease and desist
23distribution for violation of copyright law, and the distributor of each
24product is subject to being sued for statutory copyright infringement damages
Eric Andersen9395ca42004-10-13 09:42:10 +000025of up to $150,000 per work plus legal fees. Nobody wants to be sued, and <a
26href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a> certainly would prefer to spend
27his time doing better things than sue people. But he will sue if forced to
28do so to maintain compliance.
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Eric Andersen539eef62003-12-10 12:08:20 +000032Do everyone a favor and don't break the law -- if you use busybox, comply with
33the busybox license by releasing the source code with your product.
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Eric Andersen8f3eb1d2004-01-02 09:08:45 +000035<p>
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Eric Andersen57a0d912004-04-07 16:59:59 +000039 <li><a href="http://www.trittontechnologies.com/products.html">Tritton Technologies NAS120</a>
40 <br>see <a href="http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.0/1611.html">here for details</a>
Eric Andersenb4884732004-04-07 12:26:57 +000041 <li><a href="http://www.macsense.com/product/homepod/">Macsense HomePod</a>
42 <br>with details
Mike Frysinger86097b32005-09-15 01:37:36 +000043 <a href="http://developer.gloolabs.com/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=Forums&amp;file=viewtopic&amp;topic=123&amp;forum=7">here</a>
Eric Andersenb4884732004-04-07 12:26:57 +000044 <li><a href="http://www.cpx.com/products.asp?c=Wireless+Products">Compex Wireless Products</a>
45 <br>appears to be running v0.60.5 with Linux version 2.4.20-uc0 on ColdFire,
46 but no source code is mentioned or offered.
47 <li><a href="http://www.inventel.com/en/product/datasheet/10/">Inventel DW 200 wireless/ADSL router</a>
48 <li><a href="http://www.sweex.com/product.asp">Sweex DSL router</a>
49 <br>appears to be running BusyBox v1.00-pre2 and udhcpd, but no source
Eric Andersen28738ff2004-04-07 14:02:40 +000050 code is mentioned or offered.
Eric Andersena3212eb2004-01-31 05:44:07 +000051 <li><a href="http://www.trendware.com/products/TEW-410APB.htm">TRENDnet TEW-410APB</a>
Eric Andersen6534fc72004-04-07 14:07:27 +000052 </li><li><a href="http://www.hauppauge.com/Pages/products/data_mediamvp.html">Hauppauge Media MVP</a>
Eric Andersen13cf6622004-01-26 08:23:36 +000053 <br>Hauppauge contacted me on 16 Dec 2003, and claims to be working on resolving this problem.
Eric Andersenb4884732004-04-07 12:26:57 +000054 </li><li><a href="http://www.hitex.com/download/adescom/data/">TriCore</a>
Eric Andersen60be0692004-02-23 09:14:07 +000055 </li><li><a href="http://www.allnet.de/">ALLNET 0186 wireless router</a>
Eric Andersen539eef62003-12-10 12:08:20 +000056 </li><li><a href="http://www.dmmtv.com/">Dreambox DM7000S DVB Satellite Receiver</a>
Eric Andersena3212eb2004-01-31 05:44:07 +000057 <br> Dream Multimedia contacted me on 22 Dec 2003 and is working on resolving this problem.
58 <br> Source _may_ be here: http://cvs.tuxbox.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tuxbox/cdk/
Eric Andersen539eef62003-12-10 12:08:20 +000059 </li><li><a href="http://testing.lkml.org/slashdot.php?mid=331690">Sigma Designs EM8500 based DVD players</a>
Eric Andersen28738ff2004-04-07 14:02:40 +000060 <br>Source for the Sigma Designs reference platform is found here<br>
61 <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,
62 no vendors of Sigma Designs EM8500 based devices actually comply with the GPL....
Eric Andersen539eef62003-12-10 12:08:20 +000063 </li><li><a href="http://testing.lkml.org/slashdot.php?mid=433790">Liteon LVD2001 DVD player using the Sigma Designs EM8500</a>
64 </li><li><a href="http://www.rimax.net/">Rimax DVD players using the Sigma Designs EM8500</a>
65 </li><li><a href="http://www.vinc.us/">Bravo DVD players using the Sigma Designs EM8500</a>
Mike Frysinger86097b32005-09-15 01:37:36 +000066 </li><li><a href="http://www.hb-direct.com/">H&amp;B DX3110 Divx player based on Sigma Designs EM8500</a>
Eric Andersen60be0692004-02-23 09:14:07 +000067 </li><li><a href="http://www.recospa.it/mdpro1/index.php">United *DVX4066 mpeg4 capable DVD players</a>
Glenn L McGrathe11db0e2004-09-14 13:59:44 +000068 </li><li><a href="http://www.a-link.com/RR64AP.html">Avaks alink Roadrunner 64</a>
69 <br> Partial source available, based on source distributed under NDA from <a href="http://www.lsilogic.com/products/dsl_platform_solutions/hb_linuxr2_2.html"> LSILogic</a>. Why the NDA LSILogic, what are you hiding ?
70 <br>To verify the Avaks infrigment see my slashdot <a href="http://slashdot.org/~bug1/journal/">journal</a>.
Mike Frysinger7790cd52005-10-29 08:14:34 +000071 </li><li><a href="http://www.zyxel.com/">ZyXEL Routers</a>
72 <br>At least the Prestige 330W is in violation, see <a href="http://bugs.uclibc.org/view.php?id=355">the bug tracker</a> for more info.
Eric Andersen539eef62003-12-10 12:08:20 +000073 </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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