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Weblog:   Is Linksys shirking the GPL? (Maybe not.)
Subject:   GCC Issues
Date:   2003-07-30 06:03:20
From:   jbeimler
I don't think you have much chance of getting the GCC patches. Linksys isn't shipping GCC, just code compiled with it. Whomever made the bcm4710 modifications is required to give Linksys the code if it is requested, but I can't see how an end user could get the code for gcc without getting the compiler directly from the distributor.
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  • GCC Issues
    2003-07-30 11:06:33  rflicken [Reply | View]

    You're probably right there. It would make more sense to go bug Broadcom. But it can't hurt to ask, can it?

    I'm also encouraged by the fact that the chap who got a shell running on it did so using code I compiled using a standard GCC on a Cobalt Qube. There might still be a licensing question, but if code from the standard compiler runs on the WRT54G, that's a relief.
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