Re: [OT] Belkin Bluetooth Access Point GPL violation

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Robert,

> I recently purchase a Belkin Bluetooth Access Point with USB Print
> Server
> http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_
> Id=200583&pcount=&Product_Id=134669
> 
> By telnetting into it, I was able to find that it runs linux,
> specifically uClinux version 2.0.38.1pre7arm.
> 
> Investigating further, I found the device is made by
> www.rovingnetworks.com
> 
> The latest version of firmware may be obtained from
> http://www.belkin.com/firmware/bluetooth/f8t030/flash.bin or a beta
> version that includes PAN support at
> www.rovingnetworks.com/belkinpan4.bin
> 
> I contacted them at support@rovingnetworks.com  Mike Conrad replied to
> my request.
> 
> Initially, he said they wanted $5000 for a source code license.  When I
> Informed him of their GPL violation, he said
> "you could possibly have the linux os changes we made, but our bluetooth
> stack, for example, is not covered under the GPL. And we have special
> tools that enable web download, and  create the image that is loaded,
> etc."
> 
> Looking at the running system, it is not running any kernel modules, so
> I would expect the bluetooth stack to be compiled into the kernel
> proper, which in my understanding would mean they have to release the
> source.

may you tell me how you extracted the kernel and the filesystem from the
firmware files. I wanna take a look at it and find out what Bluetooth
stack they are using.

Regards

Marcel