Hyman Rosen wrote: > > Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > And before you mention Actiontec: sources were > > available from Actiontec prior to SFLC sued Verizon. > > The complaint against Verizon is dated December 6, 2007: > <http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2007/dec/07/busybox/verizon.pdf> > > This article says that the Actiontec FIOS router was available > in January of 2007: > <http://www.fibercrap.com/article/actiontec-mi424wr-router-fios-weapon-of-choice-1150-1.html> > > Looking for http://opensource.actiontec.com/ on the WaybackMachine > shows that as late as Aug 2007 the software available on the site > contained sources for a Dual PC Modem, but not for a FIOS router: > > August 2007: > <http://web.archive.org/web/20070822230857/http://opensource.actiontec.com/index.html> > Current: > <http://opensource.actiontec.com/index.html> > > So it doesn't look to me as if the FIOS router firmware was > available before the lawsuit was filed. Do you have a URL or > other evidence that shows something different?
Try this. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/07/1953217 ^^^^^^^^ ------- Looking on Actiontec's "Support: Open Source" website (http://opensource.actiontec.com/index.html [actiontec.com]), I see the following: GPL Code Download is available for the following Actiontec products: Wireless Broadband Router Model MI424WR The following is the portion of the Actiontec source code for the MI424WR Products. List of modules: busybox-0.50 Release Date Filename 11/27/2007 actiontec_opensrc_mi424wr.tar.gz Hmmm... looks like Actiontec is at least attempting to honor the license. I haven't researched what's in the tarball, but at least it's there. So, again, why is SFLC suing Verizon? ------- Then if you still have doubts go and ask Actiontec when did first appear on web site. (The latest wayback-archived version of the site is of 08/22/2007.) regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
