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Weblog:   Is Linksys shirking the GPL? (Maybe not.)
Subject:   GCC Issues
Date:   2003-07-31 08:12:04
From:   anonymous2
Response to: GCC Issues

No, Linksys IS in a position to ask them for the source if Broadcom gave them a modified GCC binary to use. You and I, having no modified GCC binary in our possession, have no right to the source, either.
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  • GCC Issues
    2003-07-31 09:17:03  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

    Read again, he said "not under obligation" not "have no right". They may not CARE what mods were made to the source.

    I agree with a previous poster, changing the config file dirs is a simple matter of messin' with the Makefile. To prove they actually made changes to the source itself, you would have to prove that the binary does something different. Comparing MD5's with a known clean GPL copy (proabably) won't work either, as they used a modified compiler. You would have to prove that the program(s) in question do something in a basicly different way than a clean version of the sources with an unmodified compiler. Good luck with that, could take a LOT of testing.
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