Another Netfilter GPL enforcement

Another Netfilter GPL enforcement

Posted Mar 3, 2004 9:55 UTC (Wed) by laf0rge (subscriber, #6469)
In reply to: Another Netfilter GPL enforcement by fooker
Parent article: Another Netfilter GPL enforcement

I can back up my claims. From the FSC and Allnet negotiations we know that they both bought ready-built devices. FSC bought from a .tw company, which themselves bought from another .tw company. The original .tw company did have a GPL disclaimer, but the second one missed to forward it to FSC.

From the FSF enforcement in the Linksys case we know that the original design of the device (the same as Allnet, Buffalo, Belkin and a couple of others) came from Broadcom. In fact, I also know that Broadcom required at least one of their customers to sign an NDA _not_ to release any of the source code.

An I am not accusing Taiwan as a country, nor the Taiwanese people. I am accusing the business practise of Taiwanese hardware vendors. And not to care about copyright (and thus the GPL) appears to be more common than actually caring about it.

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