From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264308AbTFIHub (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 03:50:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264324AbTFIHub (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 03:50:31 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:62213 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264308AbTFIHua (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 03:50:30 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 09:04:06 +0100 From: Russell King To: Russ Dill Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andersen@codepoet.org Subject: Re: Linksys WRT54G and the GPL Message-ID: <20030609090406.A18610@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Russ Dill , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andersen@codepoet.org References: <1055130436.1042.7.camel@russ.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1055130436.1042.7.camel@russ.local>; from Russ.Dill@asu.edu on Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 08:47:16PM -0700 X-Message-Flag: Your copy of Microsoft Outlook is vulnerable to viruses. See www.mutt.org for more details. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 08:47:16PM -0700, Russ Dill wrote: > While a company including udhcp is a really exciting thing for me, its > mostly exciting because I get the additional resources of anyone at > linksys working on the code, and they get a low cost of ownership dhcp > server. Of course, if they don't send me the code, it doesn't help me at > all, and I get pissed off. Exactly the same is true of my EBSA285 BIOS. The "fix" for the situation that the infringers came up with was to take down the binary download from their website which allowed me to obtain a binary copy of my code. They refused to supply source, and to date, I haven't heard anything from the company concerned. -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html