uClibc Version on Inventel Livebox

AndyP agp at dsl.pipex.com
Tue Mar 27 17:21:45 UTC 2007


Hi Jim,

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 07:19 -0700, Jim Blandy wrote:
> AndyP <agp at dsl.pipex.com> writes:
> > 	They have not as yet released any sources for this latest firmware even
> > though this code base has been installed on Liveboxes since around
> > September 2006. They don't seem to be very good with the terms of the
> > GPL.
> 
> If there's any code in there owned by the Free Software Foundation,
> they'll pursue violations of the GPL for you: have their lawyer write
> an appropriately phrased letter, etc.  Otherwise, it's up to the
> copyright holders to do that (which I encourage them to do: the GPL
> only has teeth if people give it teeth).
> 
> Here are the FSF's instructions:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html

I've been talking with the FSF about this and currently they appear to
be talking to Inventel's lawyers regarding GPL compliance. It just seems
to take ages.

AndyP





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