Re: possible GPL violation by Sigma Designs EM8500 customers

From: Jan-Frode Myklebust (janfrode_at_parallab.uib.no)
Date: 11/30/03

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    Date:	Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:59:53 +0100
    To: Iain Barker <iainbarker@hotmail.com>
    
    

    On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:02:54AM -0500, Iain Barker wrote:
    >
    > Manufacturers offering binary distributions based on Linux as 'firmware'
    > via their support websites are the easiers to check up on. Those with no
    > source code included for EM8500 SDK derived products include:
     
     
    > Kiss http://www.kiss-technology.com
    > DP-450, DP-500 DVD player

    Looks like KiSS is publishing part of their firmware:

            http://www.kiss-technology.com/?p=hot_news&v=users
            http://www.kiss-technology.com/files/firmware/GPL.zip

    No idea how complete it is..

      -jf
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