{"id":293,"date":"2008-02-28T20:29:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T19:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/aol-uk-uses-curl-in-disguise\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T08:18:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T07:18:13","slug":"aol-uk-uses-curl-in-disguise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/aol-uk-uses-curl-in-disguise\/","title":{"rendered":"AOL UK uses curl in disguise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Information to this was mailed to me from a friend but is easily verified as I&#8217;ll describe below.<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/curl60.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"curl tiny\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" align=\"right\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America Online in the UK (AOL UK) is using our cURL application (<strong>without including the license anywhere<\/strong>) as part of their automated broadband router configuration CD for their AOL UK customer base. The CD is provided to all AOL UK customers and the automated router configuration component using cURL has been included with it for a couple of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The software includes the cURL application  renamed to &#8220;<em>AOL_Broadband_Installer.EXE<\/em>&#8220;. There is no license included or mention of the license anywhere on the CD or installer, contrary to what&#8217;s required at <a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/docs\/copyright.html\">http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/docs\/copyright.html.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The md5sum for  <em>AOL_Broadband_Installer.EXE<\/em> matches the win32 binary in the <em>curl-7.15.3-win32-nossl.zip<\/em> release package I personally built and offer for download&#8230;!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to check it out yourself, the direct link I figured out to the installer is <a href=\"http:\/\/download.newaol.com\/uk\/broadband\/DG834G_V3-1_Win.exe\">here<\/a> and I found it on <a href=\"http:\/\/help.aol.co.uk\/modem-driver-software-and-installation-guides\/article\/20060802092809990028\">this page<\/a> (download the &#8220;easy installer&#8221; for <span id=\"article3CollectionHeader\">Netgear DG834G<\/span>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Update: see my reply below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information to this was mailed to me from a friend but is easily verified as I&#8217;ll describe below. America Online in the UK (AOL UK) is using our cURL application (without including the license anywhere) as part of their automated broadband router configuration CD for their AOL UK customer base. The CD is provided to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/aol-uk-uses-curl-in-disguise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AOL UK uses curl in disguise<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[67,33,68,69],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curl","category-license","tag-aol","tag-curl-and-libcurl","tag-license-violation","tag-licensing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24284,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/24284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}