Re: Eken M001 (Wondermedia WM8505) GPL violation - how to proceed?

Angus Gratton wrote:
> To be honest, I'm not practically as concerned about BusyBox (although
> it's still clearly a GPL violation) as I am about uboot & linux. Noone
> has managed to get an unpatched uboot to work on this device, or a linux
> kernel. There's a lot of BSP & onboard hardware support that isn't
> available at all.

Although you're not bothered about busybox, the fact that it's there is 
actually a help in trying to get GPL compliance for the whole device. 
This is because busybox are more active at appointing lawyers to follow 
up on disputes than many/most other projects.

See:

http://www.busybox.net/license.html

(though I have no idea if they've ever been successful in China or not.)

There's a reasonable chance if they release the busybox source under 
legal pressure they'll just release all the GPL source code.

Joseph