From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12422 invoked by alias); 30 Aug 2007 11:52:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 12413 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Aug 2007 11:52:14 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (HELO py-out-1112.google.com) (64.233.166.179) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:52:09 +0000 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a25so2909898pyi for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:52:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.119.14 with SMTP id w14mr869131qbm.1188474723243; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:52:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.159.6 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:52:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:52:00 -0000 From: "Andrea Merello" To: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: [ECOS] GPL violation ? X-SW-Source: 2007-08/txt/msg00167.txt.bz2 Hi! It happened I found a device that I suspect uses eCos OS in firmware, but I can't get source from the vendor site. So I suspect they are violating GPL and would like to investigate. I have not contacted the vendor yet directly, I'd like to know if they are really usign eCos and if they eventually had been authorized by eCos developer before go on.. The device is a PCI wireless card from Marvell Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03). It has and ARM processor where the firmare runs.. I'm developing a driver for it, on Linux OS, to properly initialize the device, the driver has to upload the firmware in the device RAM. The firmware I used is from the BSD package. You can find it here http://www.nazgul.ch/malo/malo-firmware-1.0.tgz Iit looks like it is the same firmware that is contained in the windows driver officially distributed with the card. The windows firmware can be obtained using the utility here http://www.saillard.org/linux/mrv8k/files/mrv8k_extract_fw.c I suspect this firmware is based on eCos because daiquiri:/home/user # strings /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware /mrv8k- f.fw |grep -i ecos eCos : ARM eCos daiquiri:/home/user # Thank you Andrea -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss