From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Anders Subject: Re: GPL violation by router manufacturer Conceptronic Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 23:27:37 +0100 Message-ID: <41C20BD9.10802@anduras.de> References: <200412162130.59168.maacruz@navegalia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------010709090900000801070001" Return-path: To: Miguel Angel Alvarez , netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org In-Reply-To: <200412162130.59168.maacruz@navegalia.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------010709090900000801070001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Miguel Angel Alvarez wrote: | Hi all! | | I have found what may be (it surely seems to be) a GPL violation by | Conceptronic (it was Tulip computers some years ago). | They sell a router, actual model is C100BRS4H. Their web page is | http://www.conceptronic.net, go to products->networking and you'll find it | here. | | A friend of mine bought one today. | I first ran nmap against this device, and identified it as running linux | 2.4.18-2.4.20 | Then I asked my friend to look for GPL notices and source code on the | documentation and he could find none. | So, I went to the manufacturers web to look it myself, and could find no | reference to linux or GPL code. What I found was and actual update to the | router's ROM. | The download site is | http://download.tulip.com/support/Conceptronic/Network/C100BRS4H/ | After i downloaded it (C100BRS4H_2.97.bin) and ran the strings command i | found the following significative strings: | webpages-6104k.bin | vmlinux.bin Try this: tail -c 1717886 C100.bin > webpages-6104k.bin.gz tail -c 1652350 C100.bin > vmlinux.bin.gz It's an MIPS kernel: ~ (Linux version 2.4.18-MIPS-01.00 (root@betty_linux) #318 ... 18:01:58 CST 2004) If you look at the size of the firmware file, I'm not sure, if there are only these two file in there... Regards ~ Sven - -- ~ Sven Anders ~ ANDURAS service solutions AG ~ Innstraße 71 - 94036 Passau - Germany ~ Web: www.anduras.de - Tel: +49 (0)851-4 90 50-0 - Fax: +49 (0)851-4 90 50-55 Rechtsform: Aktiengesellschaft - Sitz: Passau - Amtsgericht Passau HRB 6032 Mitglieder des Vorstands: Sven Anders, Marcus Junker, Michael Schön Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dipl. Kfm. Karlheinz Antesberger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBwgvY5lKZ7Feg4EcRAkeDAJoDv+KvtVIekPBs9PriL+FUvrzHdACeMi8K iZqrVv+t/FZDhnkVKqmyfxc= =0UuI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------010709090900000801070001--