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Broadcom or Cisco responsibility?

Broadcom or Cisco responsibility?

Posted Dec 17, 2008 0:31 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Broadcom or Cisco responsibility? by xoddam
Parent article: The FSF raises the stakes for Cisco

note that since the FSF isn't suing about the kernel, just userspace tools, this speculation about broadcom drivers seems out of place. it's only if someone who has copyright on what the broadcom drivers are derived from sues that they have the standing to ask for them.

much as they would like to, the FSF cannot say that any company failed to comply with the GPL on something the FSF controls and therefor looses the ability to use the GPL on something the FSF doesn't control

now, I agree that a settlement is probably going to cover all GPL software, but they already did that and the FSF is playing hardball.

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"toolchain", not "driver"

Posted Dec 17, 2008 0:44 UTC (Wed) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

I understand that Rob Landley has some knowledge of the case beyond what has been announced by the FSF and SFLC. The information we have is that the FSF is suing with regard to FSF-copyrighted material, and Landley indicates above that it has something to do with a toolchain that Broadcom supplied to Cisco.

That's "toolchain", not "driver", no mention of the Linux kernel.


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