First of all, the contact details to find the source are not reachable: if you email to the specified address, you'll get a reply from their mailserver (not GMails as it should be in my case) stating that the address doesn't exist. Apparently they route the mail internally to another domain, and the Exchange (yups, they provide full version number/application name/DNS and IP) rejects the mail because the address doesn't exist.<div>
<br></div><div>And to answer your question about busybox: that's the reason why I know it runs linux:</div><div><a href="http://i39.tinypic.com/14ditfn.jpg">http://i39.tinypic.com/14ditfn.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>
I immediately spotted that message on the debug console, and a few lines below it, you'll get a reference to a read only filesystem in which they're trying to delete a kernel module.</div><div><br></div><div>The device has 3 serial ports, and this is only one of them (this one had the tempting marks "UART", and included pin headers specially for me).<br>
<br>And about violating the licenses itself: I only want to do something useful with my device: it's completely locked, drains power for years without anyone actually knowing what it does, and has awkward policies on your recordings. Also, the telco uses a CAM to decrypt the DVB-C signal, but you can only use these devices (technically) to decode it. The device drains a whopping 468kWh a year (for that money I'd rather mine bitcoin ;-) ), and nobody actually knows why.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Observant readers already know whech Belgian telco I mean - asking €100 for an "unlimited" 100Mbit line on which they traffic shape and block access to <a href="http://thepiratebay.org">thepiratebay.org</a> through DNS blocking ;-). And the people just eat it out of their hands.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Yvan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/4/3 Angus Gratton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gus@projectgus.com">gus@projectgus.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 01:15:46 +0200<br>
Yvan Janssens <<a href="mailto:ik@yvanj.me">ik@yvanj.me</a>> wrote:<br>
> Is it possible to retreive the GPL part from the manufacturer, and extract<br>
> the required binaries out of the device, to use them on the same device?<br>
<br>
</div>The catch is that, even though this happens all the time (especially<br>
for Android as pointed out), this is usually not permitted by the<br>
licensing agreement on the device, so if you distribute the binary parts<br>
you're technically pirating yourself.[1]<br>
<br>
There are a few exceptions, for instance in Android-land Google<br>
distribute the OpenGL driver binaries for the Nexus S with a<br>
non-commercial redistribution clause[2], or (I believe) the Adreno GPU<br>
drivers for Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets are similarly available.<br>
<br>
- Angus<br>
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[1] Whether anyone cares is a different question, I guess.<br>
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[2] Although their license still requires you to agree to only use it<br>
on Nexus S branded phones & with the Android OS, only.<br>
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