Managed to obtain a preliminary injunction against Fortinet

Yesterday, the Munich district court granted a preliminary injunction against Fortinet's GPL in-compliant use of Free Software.

Fortinet is shipping a series of Firewall products (FortiGate and FortiWiFi) running on Linux without complying to the GPL.

Legal action was made possible via the "initrd" code, on which Werner Almesberger signed me his rights a couple of months ago.

To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet is not using any of the iptables/ip_conntrack/... code, but something different. We'll see how that is integrated into the kernel network stack as soon as they release the full corresponding source code in accordance with the GPL.

I'd like to thank my lawyer Dr. Till Jaeger from JBB Rechtsanwälte and Jürgen Lüters from Intranet Engineering, the technical expert in this case.

Obtaining (better: Applying) for a preliminary injunction is a tremendous amount of work, so this really is the last possible option if all other options have failed.

Also, making this issue public with a press release was a very well-thought action. Fortinet did not even sign a declaration to cease and desist within four weeks after receiving the warning notice. They apparently didn't want to believe that this is a serious issue. Maybe the public pressure will help getting them back to negotiations.

Just received my TVRX fronted for the USRP

TVRX is the first real HF frontend by Ettus Research for the USRP. It is based on a microtune tuner and covers 50 to 850 MHz RF.

I'm still intending to build a couple of frontends on my own. One of the most important ones would be a 15.6MHz frontend for ISO 14443 and 15693. Also, I have already obtained a number of tuner samples with I/Q output, which would make perfect match to the USRP.

Meanwhile, I'm still experiencing a lot of problem with gnuradio. While the USRP communication seems to work fine, gnuradio segfaults all over the place. Maybe this is related to x86_64, but I cannot say more about it at the moment.

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It's amazing what kind of websites people are starting. This one is definitely one of the most geeky subjects I've seen so far.