Linux kernel GPL violation (EasyRDP)

Linux kernel GPL violation (EasyRDP)

[Ivo Palli]

Hi there,

I ran into a product called EasyRDP that uses Linux. However they 
license their product under a very restrictive license that completely 
violates the GPL license.

A complete description and dissection of the product can be found on my 
website: http://www.palli.nl/~ivo/rdp/

Regards,

   Ivo Palli

Re: Linux kernel GPL violation (EasyRDP)

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2003-10-10T20:48:54,
   Ivo Palli <ivo@palli.nl> said:

> A complete description and dissection of the product can be found on my 
> website: http://www.palli.nl/~ivo/rdp/

You are right technically, but hey, you informed them of a copyright
violation which may mean a lot of internal hassles. Without giving them
any slack because what they are doing _IS_ stupid, calm down a little. 1
day is a hardly a timeframe in which they can respond adequately, in
particular at the end of the week. You should have allowed them a week
or so...


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

-- 
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SuSE Labs				try again. fail again. fail better.
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Re: Linux kernel GPL violation (EasyRDP)

[esm]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:48:54PM +0200, Ivo Palli wrote:
> A complete description and dissection of the product can be found on my 
> website: http://www.palli.nl/~ivo/rdp/

Just FYI: you can get at the useful bits of all of this without agreeing
to any license (which I haven't even seen; I don't have a Windows system
handy right now). I assumed the .img file was just a raw image of a floppy,
so a quick:

    mkdir /tmp/foo
    mount -o loop,ro easyRDP_v3_0.img /tmp/foo

does the trick for getting at the contents.

-- 
Edward S. Marshall <esm@logic.net>
http://esm.logic.net/

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

OSDL Iozone results for latest kernels

[Judith Lebzelter]

Hello;

I am publishing Iozone results for the latest 2.6 kernels in a
format meant to easily show IO differences between the kernels
on several filesystems.  The URL is:
     http://developer.osdl.org/judith/iozone_index.html

The tests are all run in the Scalable Test Platform at OSDL,
and the report is updated every few hours.

Example results:
These (below) show that for 128k records on ext2, test7 is consistantly
better than test1, but only better than 2.4.22 for Reader and Fread. (Look
at the Ave %.)  The web based reports have links to the Iozone report
data:
    http://www.osdl.org/archive/judith/tests/iozone/hist.2-CPU.ext2.bigrec.html

Iozone Summary:  2-CPU/ext2
Large Record Size 128k
Writer report
Min %     Max %   Ave % Kernel
  0.00    0.00    0.00  linux-2.6.0-test1
 -1.08    3.28    1.37  linux-2.6.0-test7
  7.49   44.40   16.65  linux-2.4.22
Reader report
Min %     Max %   Ave % Kernel
  0.00    0.00    0.00  linux-2.6.0-test1
  0.50    6.02    3.91  linux-2.6.0-test7
-10.51    2.69    0.20  linux-2.4.22
Random read report
Min %     Max %   Ave % Kernel
  0.00    0.00    0.00  linux-2.6.0-test1
 -9.00    3.22    0.87  linux-2.6.0-test7
 -0.52  128.91   12.95  linux-2.4.22
Random write report
Min %     Max %   Ave % Kernel
  0.00    0.00    0.00  linux-2.6.0-test1
 -0.72    6.08    3.19  linux-2.6.0-test7
  0.50   90.97   10.95  linux-2.4.22
Fwrite report
Min %     Max %   Ave % Kernel
  0.00    0.00    0.00  linux-2.6.0-test1
 -0.68    9.01    3.41  linux-2.6.0-test7
  5.62   37.83   13.84  linux-2.4.22
Fread report
Min %     Max %   Ave % Kernel
  0.00    0.00    0.00  linux-2.6.0-test1
  0.85    6.82    5.01  linux-2.6.0-test7
-13.64    3.91    0.83  linux-2.4.22

Iozone is an IO test. It measures 'operations per second' where
the 'operations' are the various types of reads and writes. These
summaries report the percent difference for each kernel tested
from the chosen baseline kernel(currently linux-2.6.0-test6).
There is also a 'historical' link which compares only the baseline
2.6.0-test kernels.

Go to the link for the results for more kernels.  I hope these are useful.
Please let me know if they are, or if any changes to the reports would
make them more useful.

Thanks;

Judith Lebzelter
OSDL

Re: Linux kernel GPL violation (EasyRDP)

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > A complete description and dissection of the product can be found on my 
> > website: http://www.palli.nl/~ivo/rdp/
> 
> You are right technically, but hey, you informed them of a copyright
> violation which may mean a lot of internal hassles. Without giving them
> any slack because what they are doing _IS_ stupid, calm down a little. 1
> day is a hardly a timeframe in which they can respond adequately, in
> particular at the end of the week. You should have allowed them a week
> or so...

Well, it looks to me like 1 day is 1 day more than they
deserve. All they have seems to be modified rdesktop; I do believe
that wireless routers are honest mistake, EasyRDP looks *way*
worse.
								Pavel
-- 
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]