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Linksys Releases GPLed Code for WRT54G

Posted by michael on from the happy-thoughts dept.

petree writes "I stumbled across this on the Linksys website. Linksys has apparently caved to community pressure and released the GPLed source for linux running on their WRT54G. Cool Beans!"

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  1. Re:gpl strikes again by putaro · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's not license strong-arming - the license is very explicit AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT. What rock would you have to have been hiding under to not know that the GPL is an evil, viral, license that forces you to make the GPL'd and modified GPL'd code available (heck, Bill Gates said so!)? Linksys had a choice - BSD is not invisible - and they chose to use the GPL'd stuff again.


    Don't blame the GPL for Linksys' failure to comply. No one held a gun to their heads and said "Use Linux". If they wanted proprietary code they could have written their own kernel or bought VxWorks (shudder) or used a BSD derivative. They didn't.