### Hall of Shame!!!

This page is no longer updated, these days we forward this sort of thing to the Software Freedom Law Center instead.

The following products and/or projects appear to use BusyBox, but do not appear to release source code as required by the BusyBox license. This is a violation of the law! The distributors of these products are invited to contact Erik Andersen if they have any confusion as to what is needed to bring their products into compliance, or if they have already brought their product into compliance and wish to be removed from the Hall of Shame.

Here are the details of exactly how to comply with the BusyBox license, so there should be no question as to exactly what is expected. Complying with the Busybox license is easy and completely free, so the companies listed below should be ashamed of themselves. Furthermore, each product listed here is subject to being legally ordered to cease and desist distribution for violation of copyright law, and the distributor of each product is subject to being sued for statutory copyright infringement damages of up to $150,000 per work plus legal fees. Nobody wants to be sued, and Erik certainly would prefer to spend his time doing better things than sue people. But he will sue if forced to do so to maintain compliance.

Do everyone a favor and don't break the law -- if you use busybox, comply with the busybox license by releasing the source code with your product.

- Tritton Technologies NAS120
  see here for details
- Macsense HomePod
  with details here
- Compex Wireless Products
  appears to be running v0.60.5 with Linux version 2.4.20-uc0 on ColdFire, but no source code is mentioned or offered.
- Inventel DW 200 wireless/ADSL router
- Sweex DSL router
  appears to be running BusyBox v1.00-pre2 and udhcpd, but no source code is mentioned or offered.
- TRENDnet TEW-410APB
- Hauppauge Media MVP
  Hauppauge contacted me on 16 Dec 2003, and claims to be working on resolving this problem.
- TriCore
- ALLNET 0186 wireless router
- Dreambox DM7000S DVB Satellite Receiver
  Dream Multimedia contacted me on 22 Dec 2003 and is working on resolving this problem.
  Source _may_ be here: http://cvs.tuxbox.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tuxbox/cdk/
- Sigma Designs EM8500 based DVD players
  Source for the Sigma Designs reference platform is found here
  uClinux-2.4-sigma.tar.gz, so while Sigma Designs itself appears to be in compliance, as far as I can tell, no vendors of Sigma Designs EM8500 based devices actually comply with the GPL....
- Liteon LVD2001 DVD player using the Sigma Designs EM8500
- Rimax DVD players using the Sigma Designs EM8500
- Bravo DVD players using the Sigma Designs EM8500
- H&B DX3110 Divx player based on Sigma Designs EM8500
- United *DVX4066 mpeg4 capable DVD players
- Avaks alink Roadrunner 64
  Partial source available, based on source distributed under NDA from LSILogic. Why the NDA LSILogic, what are you hiding ?
  To verify the Avaks infrigment see my slashdot journal.
  The ZipIt wireless IM device appears to be using Busybox-1.00-pre1 in the ramdisk, however no source has been made available.
- Undoubtedly there are others... Please report them so we can shame them (or if necessary sue them) into compliance.