[zebra 20119] RE: More info on WRT54G software

C.J. and Dan,

  It has nothing whatsoever to do with whether the code has been modified.

  It depends on your interpretation of article 2 of the GPL.

  If you consider a single firmware file to be a software "work" then
if anything in that "work" is under GPL, then EVERYTHING in that work is
under GPL.

  Linksys posted files for only the GPL software in the WRT54G.  They
did not post the rest of the stuff that comprises source for the firmware,
such as the network drivers, etc.  That is the violation - depending on
your interpretation of the GPL.

  In any case as I already posted, it is quite clear that the current
copyright holder of Zebra, Kunihiro, has some vested interest in not 
supporting action against what is a potential customer of the firm he works
for.  Considering we can't get him to even update the Zebra code itself
on a regular basis, the idea that he would spend time attempting to go
after Linksys/Cisco on a GPL violation is a big stretch of the imagination.

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-zebra <at> zebra.org [mailto:owner-zebra <at> zebra.org]On Behalf Of
>C.J. Collier
>Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:02 PM
>To: zebra <at> zebra.org
>Subject: [zebra 20097] More info on WRT54G software
>
>
>Looks like Rob Flickenger can prove that some of the software on the
>Linksys access points has been modified from the GPL source it
>released.  Since you folks wrote much of the code that's being run on
>the system, can you prove that Zebra has been modified?
>
>http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/07/31/1350217.shtml?ti
>d=106&tid=117&tid=137&tid=185&tid=193&tid=99
>
>Cheers,
>
>C.J.
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