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Weblog:   Is Linksys shirking the GPL? (Maybe not.)
Subject:   autoconf and an itchy trigger finger
Date:   2003-07-31 08:40:20
From:   anonymous2
Response to: autoconf and an itchy trigger finger

Make that SCO. I'm retarded.


...but not retarded enough to publicly bash Linksys without more than a slight hunch.


On O'Reilly's website, no less.


I guess that's why O'Reilly probably had editors look over your books before publishing them -- so they could filter out unfounded crap such as this.
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  • autoconf and an itchy trigger finger
    2003-07-31 11:34:47  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

    Well, with respect to Zebra you may be correct. However, we over at the "The Linux Broadcom 4301 Driver Project" (http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net) were the ones that exposed Linksys initially. Their released "source" is bogus. The Broadcom driver that ships with the router relies upon specific routines that Linksys put into their modified kernel. The source of the kernel released by Linksys DOES NOT contain these routines. Basically, Linksys is shipping a modified kernel -- which definitely isn't in "user space" and a cannot be claimed to be exempt from GPL -- and yet the kernel source they posted is a generic kernel missing all of these modifications.

    Brett Wooldridge
    "The Linux Broadcom 4301 Driver Project"
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