Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261808AbTFHNwc (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2003 09:52:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261823AbTFHNwc (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2003 09:52:32 -0400 Received: from ip4.73.1311O-CUD12K-02.ish.de ([62.143.73.4]:20163 "EHLO mocm.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261808AbTFHNwb (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2003 09:52:31 -0400 From: Marcus Metzler Message-ID: <16099.17062.859489.836020@sheridan.metzler> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 16:05:26 +0200 (CEST) To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linksys WRT54G and the GPL In-Reply-To: <20030608135212.GB656@gallifrey> References: <20030608035314.GA10781@dillweed.codepoet.org> <20030608135212.GB656@gallifrey> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: mocm@mocm.de X-Face: X!$Vwl\?,AW_[zm^ej\MLxN>q;R?C_sRZ*XE4V;BGT28Ewyd\:TS')W'G#Dgay8ci$*{lEd 02(Nk0OndG\752U>lozmb_R1poDm6mgHm_4.}bdS0hh.`xGUI.X2x_50T9.?_v~.,QI*$2:Q=HV@>F IP6%l~E:T|w,X[eC;|YD(A9X'sS"r$l]g<4CjAm4|f7o0>6zGwUPLinP0.d=E+_%?4>0A9'esEZ=9h $#b[g*/q/g'GVj-hDc,+V_]1.H^N,1Bju,>5FZn"B Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1474 Lines: 33 Dr. David Alan Gilbert writes: > I suggest taking this slowly; just like no one here would like a bunch > of lawyers breathing down their necks for something I'm sure their guys > won't either - and that should probably be a last resort after people > have tried a few friendlier contacts. > > In the case of busybox I guess they are just using a standard unmodified > one; so in principal all they really missing is an acknowledgment > pointing to its home page. > > In the case of the kernel do we know they've actually made any > modifications at all? Or is it just a standard distribution from > someone else? Perhaps they've contributed changes back? > Well, there should be a driver for the 802.11g (or is it a) card in there. The question is whether they did it as a module or not. It would be nice if the contributed that in any case. Marcus -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Dr. Marcus O.C. Metzler | | |--------------------------------|-----------------------------------| | mocm@metzlerbros.de | http://www.metzlerbros.de/ | \--------------------------------------------------------------------/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/