Re: Is the list still active?

Hello...

I've been away on a one-plus week off-road trip to Baja California
and am now back in San Diego and more or less on-line.  I came
back with a cold (driving in the rain) to a family with the flu.
This is my first day out of the house after 5 days in bed.

Jason Raichart is officially gone from Actiontec as of
today.  I called his office and was vectored to Tony Leung
(tleung-z9Lj52+S5JB8UrSeD/[email protected]), a personable fellow that seems interested
in helping us resolve the GPL source code issues with the Actiontec
Dual PC modem.

I have promised him the needed GPS source code patches to their
massive GPL release for the Actiontec Dual PC modem.  Hopefully,
with his assistance, we can *finally* get this thing resolved.

Here is a precise list of the updated files that we need released
from Actiontec under GPL...

/opt/uClinux/linux/.config
/opt/uClinux/linux/arch/armnommu/mach-cx821xx/cnxtbsp.c
/opt/uClinux/linux/arch/armnommu/mach-cx821xx/cnxtflash.c
/opt/uClinux/linux/arch/armnommu/mach-cx821xx/cnxtflash.h
/opt/uClinux/linux/arch/armnommu/mach-cx821xx/cnxtirq.c
/opt/uClinux/linux/arch/armnommu/mach-cx821xx/gpioisr.c
/opt/uClinux/linux/include/asm-armnommu/arch-cx821xx/gpio.h
/opt/uClinux/linux/include/linux/cnxtflash.h
/opt/uClinux/linux/drivers/mtd/devices/mtdram.c

All *except* the first and last source file has a GPL release in
the comments.  The 4th and 8th files are absolutely identical.

The first file is the Linux ".config" file and obviously should
be released because it is necessary and correct.  (The one on
the Actiontec Web site is flat out wrong!)

The last file in the above list was clearly derived from a
source file that came from the GPL'ed uClinux source library.
Someone at Actiontec removed the following from the header:

  * Copyright (c) 1999 Alexander Larsson <[email protected]>
  *
  * This code is GPL
  *

and replaced the copyright notice with...

  * Copyright (c) 2003 ActionTec

and deleted the "This code is GPL" line.

Although, much new code was added, I'd have to claim that the
code therefore still is GPL because the source code is clearly
"derived".  Actiontec also should put back the GPL license
reference.

Note that what *I* did to make things work was to take the above
nine source files (origin unspecified) and used them to replace
the same files in the official Actiontec GPL release source
tree which was taken (unmodified) from the Actiontec Web site.
I built a new "linuz" binary, and using the "stock" ROM file
system image unmodified, was able to "re-flash" my Actiontec Dual
PC modem have it operate flawlessly.

I am sending Tony these files today.  Hopefully he will post these
source files on the Actiontec "support" Web site and *finally*
Actiontec will be in full GPL compliance with their product,
and we will be back on our way...

Best regards,

Bruce

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  Bruce D. Lightner
  Lightner Engineering
  La Jolla, California
  Voice: +1-858-551-4011
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  Email: lightner-2huV/[email protected]
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