Reflections on the hardware industry [LWN.net]

Reflections on the hardware industry

Posted Feb 6, 2009 6:55 UTC (Fri) by TRS-80 (guest, #1804)
Parent article: Reflections on the hardware industry

This gives a good reason for the FSF's lawsuit against Cisco - it'll get Cisco to put GPL compliance on its spec list.

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Posted Feb 12, 2009 17:21 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (1 responses)

There are two repsonses Cisco can take to the lawsuite

* CheckMark GPL compliance
* CheckMark "Avoid Linux like the Plague" compliance.

Posted Feb 14, 2009 5:31 UTC (Sat) by i3839 (guest, #31386) [Link]

The latter costs more money.

And the first can't be avoided for existing products anyway.

So their best option is to add internal procedures to make sure that they respect copyright.