Linksys on-going violation of the GPL

[Eric Warnke]

Look I will grant you that they are in violation of the letter of the
license, but only because of the redesign of the website that has
moved around many items.  The new GPL center is an attempt to make it
easier to find all of the GPL covered code.  Obviously it has not
"trickled down" to all parts of the site.   Also for most other
firmware in the WRT54 series the two downloads when you click on
firmware are the binary and the source code rather than the firmware
and the changelog like on the v2.0.

Considering that in the grand scheme Linksys has been good in terms of
compliance have you made any initial, written, complaint to Linksys
legal?  They have been receptive in the past.

And please, do not attack other on this list just because you have a
bone to pick with Linksys.

Oh, please don't bothing replying to me directly since I will delete
any more of your direct replies.

Cheers,
Eric

On 9/18/06, Mr Smith <lockdown34 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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?