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| 4 | <h3>Hall of Shame!!!</h3>
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| 6 | <p>This page is no longer updated, these days we forward this sort of
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| 7 | thing to the <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law
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| 8 | Center</a> instead.</p>
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| 10 | <p>The following products and/or projects appear to use BusyBox, but do not
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| 11 | appear to release source code as required by the <a
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| 12 | href="/license.html">BusyBox license</a>. This is a violation of the law!
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| 13 | The distributors of these products are invited to contact <a href=
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| 14 | "mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik Andersen</a> if they have any confusion
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| 15 | as to what is needed to bring their products into compliance, or if they have
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| 16 | already brought their product into compliance and wish to be removed from the
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| 17 | Hall of Shame.
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| 19 | <p>
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| 21 | Here are the details of <a href="/license.html">exactly how to comply
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| 22 | with the BusyBox license</a>, so there should be no question as to
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| 23 | exactly what is expected.
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| 24 | Complying with the Busybox license is easy and completely free, so the
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| 25 | companies listed below should be ashamed of themselves. Furthermore, each
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| 26 | product listed here is subject to being legally ordered to cease and desist
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| 27 | distribution for violation of copyright law, and the distributor of each
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| 28 | product is subject to being sued for statutory copyright infringement damages
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| 29 | of up to $150,000 per work plus legal fees. Nobody wants to be sued, and <a
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| 30 | href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a> certainly would prefer to spend
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| 31 | his time doing better things than sue people. But he will sue if forced to
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| 32 | do so to maintain compliance.
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <p>
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| 36 | Do everyone a favor and don't break the law -- if you use busybox, comply with
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| 37 | the busybox license by releasing the source code with your product.
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| 39 | <p>
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| 41 | <ul>
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| 43 | <li><a href="http://www.trittontechnologies.com/products.html">Tritton Technologies NAS120</a>
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| 44 | <br>see <a href="http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.0/1611.html">here for details</a>
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| 45 | <li><a href="http://www.macsense.com/product/homepod/">Macsense HomePod</a>
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| 46 | <br>with details
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| 47 | <a href="http://developer.gloolabs.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forums&file=viewtopic&topic=123&forum=7">here</a>
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| 48 | <li><a href="http://www.cpx.com/products.asp?c=Wireless+Products">Compex Wireless Products</a>
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| 49 | <br>appears to be running v0.60.5 with Linux version 2.4.20-uc0 on ColdFire,
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| 50 | but no source code is mentioned or offered.
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| 51 | <li><a href="http://www.inventel.com/en/product/datasheet/10/">Inventel DW 200 wireless/ADSL router</a>
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| 52 | <li><a href="http://www.sweex.com/product.asp">Sweex DSL router</a>
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| 53 | <br>appears to be running BusyBox v1.00-pre2 and udhcpd, but no source
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| 54 | code is mentioned or offered.
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| 55 | <li><a href="http://www.trendware.com/products/TEW-410APB.htm">TRENDnet TEW-410APB</a>
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| 56 | </li><li><a href="http://www.hauppauge.com/Pages/products/data_mediamvp.html">Hauppauge Media MVP</a>
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| 57 | <br>Hauppauge contacted me on 16 Dec 2003, and claims to be working on resolving this problem.
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| 58 | </li><li><a href="http://www.hitex.com/download/adescom/data/">TriCore</a>
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| 59 | </li><li><a href="http://www.allnet.de/">ALLNET 0186 wireless router</a>
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| 60 | </li><li><a href="http://www.dmmtv.com/">Dreambox DM7000S DVB Satellite Receiver</a>
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| 61 | <br> Dream Multimedia contacted me on 22 Dec 2003 and is working on resolving this problem.
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| 62 | <br> Source _may_ be here: http://cvs.tuxbox.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tuxbox/cdk/
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| 63 | </li><li><a href="http://testing.lkml.org/slashdot.php?mid=331690">Sigma Designs EM8500 based DVD players</a>
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| 64 | <br>Source for the Sigma Designs reference platform is found here<br>
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| 65 | <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,
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| 66 | no vendors of Sigma Designs EM8500 based devices actually comply with the GPL....
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| 67 | </li><li><a href="http://testing.lkml.org/slashdot.php?mid=433790">Liteon LVD2001 DVD player using the Sigma Designs EM8500</a>
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| 68 | </li><li><a href="http://www.rimax.net/">Rimax DVD players using the Sigma Designs EM8500</a>
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| 69 | </li><li><a href="http://www.vinc.us/">Bravo DVD players using the Sigma Designs EM8500</a>
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| 70 | </li><li><a href="http://www.hb-direct.com/">H&B DX3110 Divx player based on Sigma Designs EM8500</a>
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| 71 | </li><li><a href="http://www.recospa.it/mdpro1/index.php">United *DVX4066 mpeg4 capable DVD players</a>
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| 72 | </li><li><a href="http://www.a-link.com/RR64AP.html">Avaks alink Roadrunner 64</a>
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| 73 | <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 ?
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[1770] | 74 | <br>To verify the Avaks infrigment see my slashdot <a href="http://slashdot.org/~bug1/journal/">journal</a>.
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[821] | 75 | <br>The ZipIt wireless IM device appears to be using Busybox-1.00-pre1 in the ramdisk, however no source has been made available.
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| 76 | </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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| 78 | </ul>
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