i stycket nedan finns väldigt intressant läsning där man kan läsa att det enda som är licensierat av dmm är front plåten på dreamboxarna & namnet dreambox, all annan mjukvara med medföljande drivrutiner ligger under gpl

sen fattar jag också att om dmm går under så slutar dom koda drivrutiner & kommande utveckling avstannar (tills det kommer en ny utvecklare) men nu är det inte det vi diskuterar utan om termen "kriminell verksamhet" när vi diskuterar kloner, vilket torde efter följande redovisning anses som trams så länge inte namnet dreambox står på boxen så ÄR boxarna FULLT lagliga!

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About your question "Clone or no Clone" i will tell you something.

At first. The Blackbox looks 80% similar to Dreambox bud this you can see
Worldwide in different Products. To compare please look to BMW an Mercedes.
Some stylish effects are same in BMW 7xx and Mercedes 5xx (Rear side etc) This means Design.

Its not forbidden to youse parts of Designs from competitors if the end Product not looking 100% similar! If you see Blackbox Receiver he is fully in Black and has complete other frontpanel as the Dreambox.

If i look in European Patentregister i only can see, that Dream has patent on Frondpanel Design and "Dream Box" as a written Name not more.
So you can be sure, that Blackbox Design Frondpanel will not affect
against Dreambox Frontpanel Patent.

If you see the Remote Control. This Design is 90% Similar to Dream Remote.
Bud owner of Design Patent for the Remote is another Company called UEI.

Now we will come to the Hardware like Mainboard.
Its not forbidden by Law to use same Electronic Components like Dreambox has inside for your own Product. Worldwide are many companies who use same IBM Processor as Dream use inside Dreambox. So in Patent Law we dont know the word Hardwarecopy!

By the way: Dream has no own Factory, they Produce by one Asian Company who also can produce for other Brands (maybe like Blackbox)

So we can say we cant see, that Blackbox is a Clone or Copy from Dreambox!

Now we will talk about Software inside!

Dreambox uses an open source Linux Distribution Software called "ENIGMA"
Open Source means that everybody can use it for everything. Thats why Dream take this free software for there Dreambox.

Inside the Open Source GPL Licence (General Public Licence) which used by the the Enigma System you can read. If anybody use this software and will put own code inside (like Drivers) the whole product stays under the GPL Licence. The only way to take out is to say stop
(here we say "Copyleft") If Dream will say from now we use Copyleft. its not longer allowed to use newer Software as the versions untill they use "Copyleft"

This means in normal language: Untill now Dream never use own Software! They use free open source Linux System and put driver code or more inside.

They never use the Copyleft so everybody can use the fully Enigma Software including Drivers or code, which was codet by Dream or other Workers.

The GPL Licence is 100 % simple. If you will use GPL Software for free, every other can use it as well.

So you can see, that Blackbox not affect any rights from Dream against Software because everything is open source and free for everybody.

By the way, nobody knows by install a Gemini or other Linux Software that he use rights from Dream to use there drivers or code. And thats the Reason why everybody can use this software for free and not need to pay for any licence or copyrights! Thats Open Source

I hope i make a good job to explain the full situation. Hope you understand everything and will now understood, that Blackbox is not a Clone or
illegal Copy of Dreambox!