On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:00:00 -0500, Nancy Anthracite
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> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5621156.html?tag=nl.e589
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> ... Interesting RE enforcement of the GPL in court.
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Actually, he does not allege Linux misuse at all.  He claims that
there are folks not living up to their end of the GPL in that they
have taken some piece of software that has been licensed as GPL and
modified it and have not put their modification back into the GPL.

Some are technical violations, for example Linksys WiFi-G router runs
linux and for a time Linksys did not provide the source code to that
box.  They were held to task and now are in full GPL compliance.
(Please note he is not including Linksys in his allegations, I used it
as an example).

He is particularly versent with vendors who use some version of either
the Linux 2.4 or 2.6 kernels in their products.  He is one of the
primary maintainers of the kernel-based stateful- packet handling
network modules in the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.  This is known as
netfilter or iptables.


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