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Redboot in a Router
- From: Andrew Potter <agp at dsl dot pipex dot com>
- To: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:10:10 +0100
- Subject: [ECOS] Redboot in a Router
- Reply-to: agp at dsl dot pipex dot com
Hi folks,
A couple of questions regarding Redboot.
I have an Inventel manufactured Livebox ADSL Modem/Router that uses
Redboot.
As I understand it, this software is released under a GPL compatible
license and this means that Inventel must release the source code for
every version of Redboot used in the Livebox to me (as I have a Livebox
and they have released a binary of it in a firmware update) if I request
it. Is this true ?
I have tried requesting the source code for the version used in this
router from Inventel but have not had any response from them.
If the above is true, is there anything else that can be done to get
Inventel to release the source ?
My understanding based on a response from Harald Welte (laforge at
gnumonks dot org ) and reading his gpl-violations.org website is that
the copyright holder would have to be the one to enforce their copyright
in France. If this is true, can the copyright owner request Inventel to
release the source ?
Thanks
AndyP
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