On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Brenda Wallace <brenda(a)catalyst.net.nz>wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:29:08 GJB wrote:
Linksys (CISCO) has a long history of conflicted emotions over OSS.
Sveasoft and OpenWRT and others have provided work around firmwares for Linksys products.
Interesting FSF should be doing it now after such a long period of abuse, I wonder why?
The press release implies they've been talking to Cisco about GPL compliance since 2004 at least - sound like they gave up and called in the lawyers - seems reasonable after 4 years.
I agree. Normally Harold Welte has dealt with many of these and got settlement quite early in the piece: http://gpl-violations.org/ -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/, http://www.jandi.co.nz Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz