Linux kernel GPL violation (EasyRDP)

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

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 <[email protected]>
http://esm.logic.net/

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

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

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 <[email protected]>

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Hi!

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?]