BusyBox GPL violation?

[Sergio Monteiro Basto]

Hi,  I buy a emtec too, an R100, they use a very old busybox .
So far as I can understand, I can see the sources and busybox version.
telnet there and enter with root. So the other sources that emtec might
be made , and with a busybox version under GPLv2 can be omit it .
Because it is his own material, other material we already have the
sources.
which is petty, because his material is not nothing especial, and they
don't use a newer version of busy box because , might be forced to show
his own material. I prefer thinking , in hacking and upgrade busybox my
self in that emtec box, because the busybox rocks ! :) 

Best regards, 

On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 19:08 +0100, René Hanke wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> I didn't really know where to post it, so I wrote this to
> vda.linux at googlemail.com and here:
> 
> 
> - - - - - - - - -
> 
> 
> Hello and greetings from Germany!
> 
> 
> I just buyed a Emtec Q800 media player/recorder and realized that its
> firmware is using your great BusyBox.
> 
> 
> Since I and some other users would like to modify the player a little
> bit (adding features), we asked Emtec, where we could download the
> sourcecode which must be available as far as I understand the GPL.
> 
> 
> Emtec told us, that they didn't have any sources but Mele
> (www.mele.cn), the "real" producer of the hard- and software. We tried
> to contact Mele multiple times, but got no response.
> 
> 
> Currently we know that *every* Emtec Media-Player uses BusyBox, but
> *no* sourcecode is available. At least *some* players from Fantec
> (www.fantec.de) and Evertech use it, too. All seem to use Mele
> Hardware.
> 
> 
> We thought it would be interesting for you to know the many violations
> of the GPL. Perhaps *you* can do something about it.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards (and please excuse my bad english)
> 
> 
> René
>  
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-- 
Sérgio M. B.
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