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<h3>Hall of Shame!!!</h3>
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The following products and/or projects appear to use BusyBox, but do not appear
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to release source code as required by the BusyBox license. This is a violation
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of the law! The distributors of these products are invited to contact <a href=
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"mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik Andersen</a> if they have any confusion as
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to what is needed to bring their products into compliance, or if they have
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already brought their product into compliance and wish to be removed from the
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Hall of Shame.
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<p>
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Here are the details of <a href="/license.html">exactly how to comply
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with the BusyBox license</a>, so there should be no question as to
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exactly what is expected.
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Complying with the Busybox license is easy and completely free, so the
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companies listed below should be ashamed of themselves. Furthermore, each
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product listed here is subject to being legally ordered to cease and desist
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distribution for violation of copyright law, and the distributor of each
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product is subject to being sued for statutory copyright infringement damages
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plus legal fees. Nobody wants to be sued, and <a
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href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a> certainly has better things to do
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than sue people. But he will sue if forced to do so to maintain compliance.
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Do everyone a favor and don't break the law -- if you use busybox, comply with
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the busybox license by releasing the source code with your product.
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<p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.acronis.com/products/partitionexpert/">Acronis PartitionExpert 2003</a>
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<br>includes a heavily modified BusyBox v0.60.5 with no source
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and no offer for source on their website. Some other Acronis
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products have also been reported as being in violation.
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<li><a href="http://www.macsense.com/product/homepod/">Macsense HomePod</a>
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<br>with details
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<a href="http://developer.gloolabs.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forums&file=viewtopic&topic=123&forum=7">here</a>
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<li><a href="http://www.actiontec.com/products/broadband/54mbps_wireless_gateway_1p/index.html">ActionTec GT701-WG Wireless Gateway/DSL Modem</a>
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<br>appears to be running BusyBox v0.61.pre, built Jan 09, 2004, but the accompanying
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CD and documentation do not mention BusyBox, nor the GPL, and no source code is mentioned
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or offered on their website.
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<li><a href="http://www.cpx.com/products.asp?c=Wireless+Products">Compex Wireless Products</a>
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<br>appears to be running v0.60.5 with Linux version 2.4.20-uc0 on ColdFire,
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but no source code is mentioned or offered.
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<li><a href="http://www.inventel.com/en/product/datasheet/10/">Inventel DW 200 wireless/ADSL router</a>
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<li><a href="http://www.sweex.com/product.asp">Sweex DSL router</a>
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<br>appears to be running BusyBox v1.00-pre2 and udhcpd, but no source
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code is mentioned or offered.
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<li><a href="http://www.trendware.com/products/TEW-410APB.htm">TRENDnet TEW-410APB</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.hauppauge.com/Pages/products/data_mediamvp.html">Hauppauge Media MVP</a>
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<br>Hauppauge contacted me on 16 Dec 2003, and claims to be working on resolving this problem.
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</li><li><a href="http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=201522&pcount=&Product_Id=136493">Belkin 54g Wireless DSL/Cable Gateway Router</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.usr.com/">U.S. Robotics Sureconnect 4-port ADSL router</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.hitex.com/download/adescom/data/">TriCore</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.allnet.de/">ALLNET 0186 wireless router</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.dmmtv.com/">Dreambox DM7000S DVB Satellite Receiver</a>
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<br> Dream Multimedia contacted me on 22 Dec 2003 and is working on resolving this problem.
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<br> Source _may_ be here: http://cvs.tuxbox.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tuxbox/cdk/
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</li><li><a href="http://testing.lkml.org/slashdot.php?mid=331690">Sigma Designs EM8500 based DVD players</a>
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<br>Source for the Sigma Designs reference platform is found here<br>
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<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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no vendors of Sigma Designs EM8500 based devices actually comply with the GPL....
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</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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</li><li><a href="http://www.rimax.net/">Rimax DVD players using the Sigma Designs EM8500</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.vinc.us/">Bravo DVD players using the Sigma Designs EM8500</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.hb-direct.com/">H&B DX3110 Divx player based on Sigma Designs EM8500</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.recospa.it/mdpro1/index.php">United *DVX4066 mpeg4 capable DVD players</a>
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</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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</ul>
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