Deutsche Telekom W700V GPL violation

[Sebastian Gottschall]

Thomas Charron schrieb:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Armijn Hemel <armijn at uulug.nl> wrote:
>   
>> hi,
>> Those are very harsh accusations and if I were you, I'd take them back,
>> publicly. Do you know why this code is in there?
>> Have you contacted Deutsche Telekom about this? Have you contacted the
>> copyright owners to verify?
>>     
>
>   Why the code is in there is really a moot point.  Of course, it can
> be ported to any operating system you like, you'd have to keep it
> open, HOWEVER..  The operating system wouldn't have to be.  Nor would
> madwifi, using the BSD license.
>
>   The could fairly easily be reusing the wireless tools for Linux
> without changing them one little bit, as long as their operating
> system simply provided identical API's.  That's not 'stealing sections
> of the Linux kernel', however.
>   
the problem is that Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions are GPL 
licensed. so they can't be reused and compiled into a firmware without 
releasing
the source, modification or any derived work to the public.

Sebastian