Linksys on-going violation of the GPL

[Mr Smith]

>From: Ard van Breemen <ard at kwaak.net>

>If I click GPL code center on the left, I get all possible source
>code and SDK packages for al WRT versions that contain Linux
>(instead of VX(doesnt)WORKS)
>I can imagine that they should refer to the GPL code center on
>the left side. But to my feeling they have done enough to comply:
>It's easy accesible, and on the firmware download page it is
>stated that it contains GPL'd software. Anyone that wants this
>source code (to improve it) is probably bright enough to look at
>the left side (no offense intended).

Ok, considering you feel they have done enough to comply, please go into 
detail how you feel they have complied with the first clause of the GPL:

1.  You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code 
as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and 
appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and 
disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this 
License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of 
the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.


Is the availablity tucked two clicks away off on the side really "along with 
the Program"?  Exactly how far can a company go to disassociate availablity 
of the license text of the GPL from the covered work and still in your mind 
comply with the GPL?  Keep in mind, there is an immediate link on the page 
to download GPL covered works but none of the links result in an immediate 
download of the text of the GPL.  Instead, the user needs to know to ignore 
the gray icon indicating that GPL code is not an option and dig through a 
long list provided by a general menu item not specifically associated with 
the firmware/device.  It appears to me that clause 1 is not being honored at 
all.  How you streach this to being enough to comply really leaves baffled.  
Why is clause 1 even written into the text of the license if there is no 
intention to enforce it?

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