Wolfgang Denk <wd <at> denx.de> writes:
>
> Dear Mateusz,
>
> In message <5123E16B.1060907 <at> gmail.com> you wrote:
> >
> > Is there anyone that can support me with enforcing GPL compliance on
> > company that ships product with binary u-boot? Or did that in the past?
>
> We can try.
>
> > They're "made" (branded is probably better word) by local companies, and
> > my guess is that most of them is violating GPL.
>
> Guesses are not good enough in such legal affairs.
>
> > I can't do much myself (except for nagging them for source code), as
> > it's not my copyrights that they're infringing.
>
> So did you contact the vendor and ask for the source code? And did
> they answer, and what exactly?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
Hi there
Has there been any progress on this GPL non-compliance issue?
Similar products as mentioned by the OP are also available in the USA. I
have purchased one of them, a HomeWorX HW-150PVR "manufactured" and
distributed by Mediasonic, which seems to be a DBA for Major League Global
Enterprise LLC, 16968 Gale Ave., City of Industry, CA 91745, USA. A product
of identical functionality is the iView-3500STB "manufactured" and
distributed by Wiltronic Corporation.
Both products are set-top boxes with ATSC TV tuners and a USB port for
recording and playback of content. The main board has a MS7816 SoC made by
MStar Semiconductor of Taiwan.
On startup the onboard serial port outputs:
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UART_115200
BIST0-OK
_snPDMDrv_PM_RtcGetCounter(CurrentCounter=0)
Hello U-Boot
U-Boot 1.1.6 (Feb 27 2013 - 22:42:31)
Board: MSTAR KRNOUS (CPU Speed 552 MHz)
DRAM: 64 X 0 MBytes
U-Boot is running at DRAM 0x87600000
###############BOARD CONFIGURATION#####################
DEFAULT ENBALE L2-Cache
FPU(ENABLE)
ENABLE_DDR3_16BIT_MODE
DDR_FREQUENCY(1066MHz)
###############BOARD CONFIGURATION#####################
Module: USB FAT FLASH SPI LOGO OSD ENV=SERIAL
Flash is detected (0x0C00, 0xC8, 0x40, 0x16)
MDrv_SERFLASH_GetInfo()
u32AccessWidth = 1
u32TotalSize = 4194304
u32SecNum = 64
u32SecSize = 65536
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
GPIO PIN 6 HIGH!!!!!!!
...
= = = end = = =
This version of U-Boot installed in the product seems to have been
significantly enhanced by MStar.
The `help' menu is:
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<< MStar >># help
? - alias for 'help'
do Lzma for compress image
base - print or set address offset
bdinfo - print Board Info structure
boot_logo - Logo display
bootm - boot application image from memory
cmp - memory compare
coninfo - print console devices and information
cp - memory copy
cpmsbin - Copy ms bin file (Chakra) from nand to dram
crc32 - checksum calculation
cusid check the image is release by the valid guys
dcache - enable or disable data cache
dmx_init - initialize the demux setting
dmx_init - initialize the demux setting
draw_pixel - draw a pixel with color
draw_string - draw string with color
draw_rect - draw rect with color
draw_string - draw string with color
du - Disable UART
env2flash - read environment parameter file and restore it to flash
envbin - read out environment parameter and store it to usb disk
erase - erase FLASH memory
fatinfo - print information about filesystem
fatload - load binary file from a dos filesystem
fatls - list files in a directory (default /)
fatwrite - write binary file to a dos filesystem
flinfo - print FLASH memory information
go - start application at address 'addr'
help - print online help
loop - infinite loop on address range
md - memory display
mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
mstar - update kernal & root file system automatically by script file
mtest - simple RAM test
mw - memory write (fill)
ustar - update kernal & root file system automatically by script file
nm - memory modify (constant address)
ostar - update kernal & root file system automatically by script file
oad_get_size - Get the file size from OAD download
osd_create - create osd layer
osd_destroy - destroy osd layer
pnlinfo - set panel info and save to nand flahs
printenv- print environment variables
protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
run - run commands in an environment variable
saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
set_paneltype [type] - Set Mboot panel type and store the type value in env
setenv - set environment variables
spi_dma - SPI copy data from flash to DRAM by PIU DMA
spi_ea - SPI erase all
spi_eb - SPI erase block
spi_gfo - SPI get flash info
spi_gr - SPI get Chip Rev
spi_id - SPI read ID
spi_in - SPI initialization
spi_r - SPI read commands
spi_rb - SPI read buffer
spi_rdc - SPI read code from SPI flash to DRAM
spi_rs - SPI read status
spi_w - SPI write commands
spi_wb - SPI write buffer
spi_wp - SPI write protect
spi_wrc - SPI write code from DRAM to SPI flash
sspi - SPI utility commands
sysinfo - set system info and save to nand flahs
tuner_demodtype - set frontend type
tuner_init - frondend initialization
tuner_tune - tune RF to check lock or not
usb - USB sub-system
ustar - update kernal & root file system automatically by script file
usbboot - boot from USB device
ustar - update kernal & root file system automatically by script file
version - print monitor version
<< MStar >>#
= = = end = = =
The HomeWorX product documentation and their website do not mention anything
about GPL software or the GPL. Several weeks ago I contacted
Mediasonic Tech Support by email for a request of "U-Boot and any other GPL
source code. For the first email, I received a response of "will pass your
request to Design Department." A follow-up inquiry was ignored.
This week I posted a public request for the Mediasonic/MStar GPL source code
at Mediasonic's user forum:
http://forum.mediasonic.ca/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=1820. But it seems like the
forum's Admin/moderator has chosen to ignore my post.
Any advice on how to enforce GPL compliance and obtain the source code?
Regards -- Gerard
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