BT Home Hub: Continued violation

Ralph Corderoy ralph at inputplus.co.uk
Sun Apr 6 19:38:49 CEST 2008


Hi Chris,

> Are you saying that the bt home hub has software covered by gpl v3,
> which enforces replacability? Because while the spirit of the GPLv2
> might want replacement of code on the hub, the letter of the license
> does not.

I've no doubt you're right but I've never heard it stated before;  why
isn't GPL V2's section 3's definition of source code sufficient?

    The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
    making modifications to it.  For an executable work, complete source
    code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
    associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
    control compilation and installation of the executable.

Cheers,


Ralph.




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