[MLB-WIRELESS] Linksys and the GPL ([Fwd: Re: [mesh] minitar AP]

[Grant Diffey]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 03:22:30PM +1000, James Healy wrote:
> In other news Cisco/Linksys/Broadcom have learnt a lesson about the GPL from
> the LKML people, source is now available for the WRT54G family of products.
> 
> They have released the source code included in the products but have
> released the wirless driver as object code only. (In the directory
> /release/src/wl)
> 
> See: http://linksys.com/support/gpl.asp
> For more info.
> 

There are still some issues here .. the source they provided doesn't actually COMPILE
so investigations are ongoing

Btw there has been some interesting discussion of minitars obligations under the GPL
on their forums.

http://www.minitar.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=19


-- 
Grant Diffey aka "nevyn"

President of Computerbank Australia Inc.
http://www.computerbank.org.au/
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